Others may criticize Shang Wuji on the grounds that "nobles and humbles are of different kinds". The Yunyan family is noble and the barbarians are humble. There is nothing wrong with this.
Even Shang Wuji's behavior hurt the dignity and etiquette of the nobles within the Wu Kingdom.
Under such circumstances, it would not be surprising for Shang Wuji to suffer any kind of attack.
But even though he knew this situation, Shang Wuji still chose to let his sister serve the handsome man of Yinxiang as a concubine.
Of course, he didn't make a big fanfare, he just sent someone to explain the decision and situation clearly to the Yanling clan.
As soon as such a decision came out, even the patriarch was shocked, but at this time Shang Wuji had "separated the family", which was equivalent to becoming an independent Yinxiang Shang family, and the patriarch did not scold him.
Every family has its own affairs.
"call……"
After the servants came back from Yanling, they brought news from the patriarch. They did not scold or blame him, but only told Shang Wuji not to relax.
The patriarch's behavior made Shang Wuji relieved. He had made this determination under great pressure.
"Aweng cares about you, Wuji will keep it in your heart."
Shang Wuji dared to say that if it were the Yunting Zhong family, there would be a huge quarrel and even a fight at home. As for how many people would be killed or injured, it would depend on how deep the anger was.
Taking a noble girl as a concubine is an unprecedented humiliation for a local "prominent family"!
"Does your beloved think so highly of Li, the leader of Yinxiang?"
Support is support, but the doubts in her heart are still very strong. When Shang Wuji's wife was cleaning her "big pavilion", she still couldn't hold back her curiosity.
At this time, Shang Wuji was kneeling under the eaves in front of his house, looking at the village road beyond the fence. On the other side of the village road was a brand-new ditch. There was water in the ditch, and a large piece of
Paddy fields, surrounded by it.
Only there is a rice field in front of Shang Wuji's house. I heard that it was a replanted crop of rice, and it has grown very well at this time. The paddy fields are in patches, and it is completely impossible to tell that it was once a wasteland.
To open up such a large paddy field requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
But Shang Wuji knew very well that the main food harvested in Baisha Village now is beans.
Can beans be eaten? Yes. Can they be used as a staple food? No.
However, there is a special yard in Baisha Village that can turn soybeans into good products and then sell them to Suzhou.
"Cold tofu, how do you like it?"
Shang Wuji did not answer his wife's question. Instead, he asked his wife a question.
"It goes well with meals. The chef uses it to braise fish, which is very delicious."
"good."
Shang Wuji nodded slightly. Wherever he looked, he saw some women from Baisha Village placing eel cages on the ridges of the fields. Seeing how skillfully they worked together to place them in the water and cover them with soil and grass, you knew it was not a day's work.
In addition, the team that returned from collecting bamboo outside was doing secondary repairs on the bamboo. They used the stone axes in their hands very flexibly, and they were also skilled workers.
Bamboo will be stored in the storage yard, and next to the bamboo storage yard is the stone storage yard. Both storage yards are adjacent to a creek. The stream has been obviously widened, with many willow branches inserted on the river bank, and a trestle mixed with bamboo and wood stretches.
Outside, there are many small boats transporting daily supplies docked. As for the large ships, they are docked parallel to the river bank.
"Well, well...it makes sense."
Well-organized, this is Shang Wuji's evaluation of Baisha Village.
In the entire Wu Kingdom, no village can reach this level!
Shang Wuji dared to assert this.
This is the quality that only the king's towns near Gusu should have.
Looking to the east, the long reed marsh has been planned in advance, and there are many women and children picking reed leaves and comfrey. A large amount of cress has been replanted near the reed marsh to serve as a dividing line for the planning.
Li Jie told Shang Wuji that after the autumn harvest, the reed marsh to the east would be completely drained of accumulated water and then dredged.
You don’t need to think about what you will do after dredging. It will naturally be to increase cultivated land.
In fact, Shang Wuji learned that Baisha Village had cleared its ponds several times, and some of the fields were actually the result of filling in the ponds after the ponds were cleared.
As if she had heard what her husband had just said, Shang Wuji's wife also looked around carefully. She suddenly discovered that there were quite a lot of "grand pavilions" in the row facing the river. At the level of a "savage", there were actually quite a few.
Being able to build so many "pavilions" within a few months is indeed quite remarkable.
This kind of greatness is not a compliment to the "savage", but a compliment to Li Jie.
There are "savages" everywhere, but no "savages" anywhere have such abilities.
"How great can a good man and a handsome man from Yinxiang become?"
"How do you know the importance of not being able to aspire to the throne?"
Shang Wuji smiled and turned to look at his wife.
"this……"
His wife looked shocked, and Shang Wuji laughed loudly: "This is a joke."
Having said that, Shang Wuji's eyes were fiery. He saw Li Jie's extraordinary qualities and even saw Yin Xiang's special abilities.
The "barbarian" of "Baisha" can actually use it like an arm. This is extraordinary.
What's more, Shang Wuji also learned a little secret from Li Jie, that is, the "Baijia Clan", one of the "Nine Barbarians on Huaishang" in the north of the Yangtze River, actually had a Pheasant in his hands.
This matter was brought to Gusu by Master Ba in a few words.
Regarding the "Huaiyi" thing, if you can bleed them, Gusu will be happy to see it happen, no matter what you do.
However, Shang Wuji knew very well that this guy, Gongzi Ba, seemed to be mature and kind, but he was also secretly cunning, and he actually deceived all the kings and ministers of Gusu.
"'Baijia'..."
Shang Wuji muttered that he had some traces of what he was going to do in the near future.
"I don't know how my sister is doing now. She wants to meet Shou Li in person. If she doesn't speak well, I'm afraid the fierce man will be cruel."
"It doesn't matter."
Hearing his wife's worries, Shang Wuji smiled and waved his hand, "Shou Li is a strange man, not a despicable man."
"ha--"
While he was talking, he heard a loud shout. It was neat and penetrating because it was a woman's voice.
On the back of a low hill mixed with sand and soil, there was a piece of land surrounded by wicker sticks. The land was very flat, and there were many women standing inside.
It's just that they are different from the busy women outside. These women are holding bamboo poles and standing in a queue.
The shouts came from here.
Every time he shouted, the bamboo pole would stab forward neatly. Although some people still laughed out loud from time to time, most of them still couldn't laugh out loud.
Because some strong women would laugh out loud with a whip. After the screams continued for ten days, few people dared to continue laughing.
Even if the onlookers were pointing, covering their mouths and snickering, they would be pulled out of the crowd by the "crocodile man" and whipped five times in public.
Anyone who dared to resist, even with just a look, would be ordered to move out of the village, and could only sleep in the creek next to the village where the propagation was stopped.
There is a small sign here with a long passage written in simplified Chinese characters. Most of the villagers still cannot understand these words, but they know them by heart.
"Rule makes it a perfect circle, and moment makes it square. Without rules, there is no square circle."
Even if he couldn't see the movement on the Aiqiu playground, Shang Wuji could still read the content on the sign outside the playground.
Baisha Village, the administrative center of Yinxiang, has rules.