When receiving the urgent message from Shang Wuji, President Li said that he was in Chu State and had just arrived at Zhu Palace and was busy.
I took the King of Chu Xiong to eat hot pot. The vegetables were mainly bean sprouts, leeks, and spinach, and then a large amount of soaked dried mushrooms. At this time, I used it to make the soup base. It was amazing.
Xiong Sheng, who was still young, felt for the first time that this life was so colorful.
Even though Xiong Sheng was a little older, he never bothered his uncle Li Jie when he was reading letters and working. He honestly held the food in the bowl by himself, and the waiters were waiting on him, lest the Han people would give their family a king.
poison.
Snapped!
Li Jie patted his thigh hard, wiped his mouth, put the letter in his hand on the table, patted it gently, and said with a smile while patting it: "This Zeng Shan can do it."
Most of the people who can come and serve the King of Chu to eat hot pot are actually not low in status, especially those like Yan Zhe. Strictly speaking, they are relied on as important ministers. Of course, the use of Yan Zhe depends on the situation and the mood of the monarch.
If you are in a bad mood, you may have your legs broken and then ask you to become a cheater, which is basically full of malice.
Yan Zhe, who was eating hot pot with the King of Chu, had not broken his legs, so he was naturally not very unlucky, and he had some ideas. When he heard Li Jie talking about Zeng Shan, he immediately pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
Others don't know about Zeng Shan, how can they, the Chu people, not know about him?
The old man murmured in his heart: Could it be that we have made an appointment with Han to attack Chu?
This thing is not impossible, and Sui Guo can certainly do it. The world is difficult, and friends who die in Taoism do not die in poverty. This is the normal operation of all countries in the world.
Anyway, a piece of news came out to Li Jie of Zhugong Palace before. The State of Qin and Huaizhong City had already agreed to attack the State of Chu together.
It's just that Li Jie did attack the Chu State and directly attacked the Yingdu city with crocodiles, but the old Qin people didn't even see the hair on his legs. This incident also made the Chu people in Yingdu think it might be a rumor.
But even if it is fake, it must be taken seriously. What if? What if the old Qin people really want to come over and show the Chu people how dark and shiny their leg hair is, how disgusting it is? Then
How terrible?
Now that the old Qin people are not here, the old man of Chu can't help but wonder, could it be that it is not Qin but Sui Guo? Compared with the overlord of Guanxi like Qin State, or a minion like Sui Guo, it is very possible
.
Qin and Chu are separated by vast mountains, so it's not so easy to fight.
However, the old man also knows that the news here in Zhugong Palace is quite closed now. He doesn't know what really happened, and he doesn't know clearly either.
Again, the world is tough.
"Uncle is so happy. What did Zeng Shan do?"
"You have become the king of Chu. How come you don't even know who Zeng Shan is?"
"I don't know."
"Xiao Zhi, Zeng Shan is the senior official of Suiguo."
"Master Suiguo Zeng?"
Blinking, he put a chopstick of mung bean sprouts in the bowl. Xiong Sheng looked up at Li Jie and said, "If it's Mrs. Zeng, I would know about it. When I was still in Shangbo, he even gave me a few 'East China Sea Glazed Beads'
Woolen cloth."
"..."
Hey...this old man is so bad!
President Li had to admit that the old man Zeng Shan was good at playing. The old man played a huge role in Suiguo being able to survive for so many years in such a complicated environment.
No wonder Wu and Chu did not suffer much loss in the war. Instead, they continued to play both sides. It is not easy to be able to gain some fame in the Huai and Han River basins. You are truly capable.
Li Jie admired Zeng Shan from the bottom of his heart. The old man's character was indeed very good and he was very suitable as a moral benchmark within the Hanzi Kingdom.
Another thing is that even though Suihou was holding him back, he could still keep things in order, so that Suihou, the boss, could live a comfortable and dignified life. It could be said that he was worthy of being a doctor.
It can even be said that Zeng Shan is worthy of the title of Sui Guoshang Dafu, but the title of Sui Guoshang Dafu, which is placed above Zeng Shan, somewhat lowers Zeng Shan's grade and style.
"This old master, when you have time in the future, you can ask him for more advice. If you have any questions, just ask."
"Uncle is familiar with Mrs. Zeng?"
Xiong Sheng was very curious. In Chu State, there were not many talented people from other countries who could be admired by Chu people.
What Chu people can never forget will either make Chu people very envious or very fearful.
The old monster is the latter, and as for Zeng Shan, he is naturally the former.
"It's very cooked." Li Jie picked up his chopsticks, picked up two pieces of beef from the hot pot, dipped them in the sauce, and stuffed them into his mouth. The old man felt a twinge of angina after eating them.
This bastard publicly slaughtered a cow in Zhugong Palace. The screams of the cow could be heard all the way to Yingdu. I don’t know how many people swore and swore behind their backs, cursing that this beast would be struck to death by lightning, but Mr. Li was the one who did it.
No, the cattle were killed and eaten as they pleased, and they ate in all kinds of ways.
In this situation, the old man has to admit that the charcoal-grilled beef tongue... is so damn delicious!
However, this does not prevent the man from scolding people secretly. After all, he has no choice but to eat charcoal-grilled beef tongue.
The culprit of everything is the savage Li Jie of Wu State!
On the iron plate, two pieces of beef tenderloin were sizzling. A little sprinkling of the special condiments of Qin and Shu made the food smell fragrant.
Xiong Sheng next to him was so greedy that he almost cried, but he couldn't eat Sichuan peppercorns. When he saw that Sichuan peppercorns were sprinkled on him, he suddenly felt bad and his face fell there. The old man was so frightened that he nodded and apologized to Li Jie.
"Stop pouting, there's no Sichuan peppercorns in this piece."
After saying that, Li Jie took a piece and placed it in front of Xiong Sheng, and then said with a smile, "Master Zeng gave me the green forest. He also said that the people of the green forest admired the man's demeanor and asked him to join him. Now he calls himself
'A good man', he said he was allowed to be driven by me."
The naughty boy ate the tender beef tenderloin happily. The pieces of beef tenderloin did not melt in your mouth, but they were easy to draw. The fineness of the meat was almost as good as that of a fish pond. The texture and aroma were...
When I followed Queen Mother Zhao before, I never ate it even once.
Being a king means setting an example. It is not good to take the lead in eating cows. Although our ancestors started out as cattle thieves, our ancestors did not steal cows for food, but for sacrifice.
If you take the lead in eating cows, you are a fool.
Therefore, Xiong Sheng likes to eat and drink with his uncle very much, which is very good. Even if he is scolded as a foolish king, he will not be scolded. He will only call his uncle, a man and the king of the country, a foolish king.
The naughty kid was just happy. The Chu State bureaucrats who were eating next to him almost choked to death on the spot no matter how polite they looked.
The old man's eyes were bulging, as if he had seen a ghost. He wanted to explain something to Li, but he couldn't even let out a fart.
In fact, the "green forest" is Chu, and the state of Chu has been struggling for many years, but there is nothing that can be done about the green forest.
When attacking Suiguo, as soon as Suiguo is cornered, he will burrow into the green forest and drag his family with him. The Chu people really have nothing to do with Suiguo.
Because we have to sweep through the green forest, we can only attack the levels one by one and attack the strongholds one by one.
Chu State boasts everywhere that it has hundreds of thousands of armored men. If you brag about four to five or six hundred thousand, you will die if you enter the green forest. You are useless.
Without elite soldiers and strong generals, it is impossible to fight a good battle in the green forest area.
As a result, when the Chu people heard this, Sui Guo Lulin, who made the Chu people urinate blood, was sent away lightly by Sui Guo's official Zeng Shan, or was he given to the Han people?
A group of Chu State bureaucrats turned pale at that time, and even the beef in front of them seemed to no longer taste good.
The old man's expression was very ugly, and his eyes revealed even more sadness. The green forest fell into Li Jie's hands. If Chu wanted to counterattack Handong, the difficulty would be unimaginable.
But soon the old man's face became a little more relaxed.
"Oops, here comes the shark fin!"
Clapping his hands, King Xiong Sheng of Chu immediately stood up and asked Li Jie excitedly, "Uncle, uncle, besides the fish pond, is there any cuttlefish soup? Is there any cuttlefish soup?"
“Squid and ribs soup, that’s a must have!”
Li Jie laughed, clapped his thigh and shouted, "Come here, ask Sha Dong if the cuttlefish and ribs soup is ready. If it's ready, bring it over quickly. I'm eating barbecue. What can I do without soup?"
“Add green onions!”
Before the talented crocodile man had gone far, King Xiong Sheng of Chu stretched his neck and shouted loudly.
The old man waiting next to him was very embarrassed, but looking at the shark fin soup, as a senior bureaucrat of the Chu State who could get a share of the soup, the old man still picked up the spoon with shame, and even more ashamedly used the spoon to put the shark fin soup into his mouth.
deliver.
Why the hell does it smell so good!
too delicious!
"I may be going on an expedition in a while. Will you go to Yingdu to accompany your mother, stay in Zhugong Palace, or follow me?"
"Is there anything delicious to eat during the expedition?"
"It's not that there aren't many delicious foods on the expedition, but not much. It's not like staying in Zhugong. If you want to eat beef, you can eat beef, and if you want shark's fin, you can eat shark's fin."
"Then I'd better stay in Nagisa Palace. Does General Dong want to stay? The cuttlefish and ribs soup he makes is really delicious."
After eating a bowl of shark fin, I was actually quite full.
However, King Xiong Sheng of Chu is even more looking forward to the cuttlefish and pork ribs soup. After the cuttlefish is cut into small strips, it is stewed slowly with the pork ribs in a casserole. Dried mushrooms and soaked fungus are added. The most delicious thing is the mushrooms.
The taste is quite fresh.
It combines the fresh aroma of cuttlefish, crispy pork ribs, and the non-greasy aroma of oil. No matter how you eat it, you will have a good aftertaste.
Especially now that it is winter, drinking a bowl of this soup will warm your whole body and you can withstand any cold wind.
Even though the few Chu officials around who were serving the King of Chu were silent, they felt really happy to be able to drink soup with the King of Chu.
Even if every time after returning home, behind closed doors, the old man would take the lead in scolding men for their immorality and ruining their Chu King's children, but every time there was a banquet, they had to be there at meal time.
In a word, it must be on site!
If you scold, you should scold, if you eat, you should eat.
"Then you just stay in Nagisa Palace. Tell the kitchen what you want to eat. But Shadong won't stay. He wants to go on an expedition with me."
"Where is uncle going to fight?"
"East of the Han River, there are rebellious people everywhere. If we don't defeat them one by one, won't they come to snatch my meat and my soup?"
"Then I wish my uncle a successful expedition."
The naughty boy said it sincerely. His uncle must succeed. If he fails, wouldn't the soup be robbed?
However, Xiong Sheng glanced at the old man with a very complicated expression and wondered why everyone was not in a high mood today.
Lao Yan was also speechless in his heart. His king actually wished Li Jie success. Where was this man going to conquer? Aren't they all the homeland of Chu?!
Those rebellious people from Han Dong are the king’s ministers!
"Hahahahahaha..."
Li Jie raised his head and laughed, "Okay! After I deal with Handong's rebellion, it's almost time to eat winter bamboo shoots. When the time comes, let someone make winter bamboo shoots and minced pork noodles!"
Li Jie was in a good mood, and he didn't bother to interact with Chu Guoqing's doctors. These guys looked miserable every day, and they didn't know who they were showing off to.
It seems that if this is not the case, it will not appear that he is loyal to the King of Chu and the country of Chu.
It's a pity that just like they drank the shark's fin and cuttlefish rib soup now, Li Jie's current fleet has successfully begun to build lighthouses and water forts along the Yangtze River, which is of great significance for commuting to Pengli Ze.
of protection.
Even in winter, animals can be mobilized directly from Huainan through this route.
In terms of transportation capacity and efficiency, it is infinitely better than land transportation.
The only fly in the ointment is that sailing in the center of the Yangtze River is extremely risky. Instead, it is better for a small boat to travel against the current in the near-shore current, relying on the experience and skills of the boatman and the punter to move forward against the current.
As a result, the transportation capacity is reduced by two-thirds, and the number of transportation can only be increased, but the risk is also greatly increased.
But this time, it was not Li Jie who was taking the risk. Although the main body of the risk was still the Hanzi Kingdom official, the proportion of the private sector seemed to have increased by ten or twenty times overnight.
The profits are so huge.
The old local wealthy family of the Chu State directly contacted Li Jie's department responsible for building lighthouses, outposts, and water fortresses through the channel of the King of Chu, not to inquire about military intelligence, but for the sake of shipping routes.
A mature route can allow the old local aristocratic families of Chu State to directly become the most unique second-level traders on the Jianghan Plain.
They could go down the river directly to Jiangyin City to get pearls that were actually not valuable, and then transport these pearls to Ba and Shu to exchange for large amounts of silk, pepper, furs, and ores.
Among these aristocratic families, there is the Qu family, which is also a branch of the Chu clan, and the Qu family has countless deceivers.
When President Li was working as a foreman, he never saw any kind of bird. He swore that corruption would kill his family and his family had so many animals. These people were usually kind to others and friendly, and they could be considered well-dressed.
It's a pity that when it's time to fish, I can't control myself at all.
What impressed Foreman Li most deeply back then was that he built exterior walls for a factory directly affiliated with a printing and dyeing group in his hometown. Then a deputy director swore to the sky at the factory gate that if he deliberately scrapped a machine and sold it at a low price to cash out, he would kill his whole family.
Then he died and his whole family died.
A fully loaded dump truck roared past. The deputy director of the factory was driving his family back to his hometown to visit relatives. They passed by an intersection with only warning lights. There was a bang, and the whole family was lifted into the sky. No one survived.
This intersection is definitely no more than 500 meters away from the factory directly affiliated to the printing and dyeing group.
At that time, Foreman Li took a special look and found that the front fender of the dump truck was actually made of all steel, about the thickness of a finger...
It was only later that Foreman Li found out that the entire set of machines cost an estimated 30 million yuan.
So after the work on the outer wall was completed, the director of the factory directly affiliated to the printing and dyeing group said that the factory had financial difficulties recently, and the wages... could be extended for a few days.
When Foreman Li saw that the factory was indeed encountering difficulties, in a humanitarian spirit, he said it didn't matter whether it was money or not. Let's make friends and keep in touch when we have time in the future. Then he pulled the worker's apprentice and put the worker's apprentice into second gear and stepped on the accelerator.
Ejection start, violent driving, but as a technical foreman, Foreman Li still stepped on the brakes at the intersection, looked left and right to make sure there was no oncoming car, and then slowly passed the intersection.
As the saying goes: rush for a few seconds and say goodbye to a beautiful life; stay for a moment and enjoy a happy life.
Driving safety is very important!
Nowadays, Li Jie's social status has been drastically changed. In his eyes, he cannot say that all the loyal ministers who followed King Xiong Sheng of Chu are loyal ministers, but at least half of them were killed by the roar of dump trucks.
Stuff that has been ground into meat patties.
I swear to God that if there is a first time, there will be a second time.
Like when President Li started his business in Baisha Village, when did he not swear to heaven?
No shit.
The people of the Chu State are very pragmatic. If they really talk about the rules of the world and give face to some nobles, how can they have such a large territory, such a large territory, and such a large influence?
Of course, being beaten up is another matter. Whatever the cause, the result will be the same.
After eating and drinking, Li Jie asked people to keep these close and loyal ministers around the King of Chu, and have a tea party after dinner, in the middle of winter, to chat all day long.
We also prepared melon seeds, which are salt and pepper melon seeds. They are fragrant and not numb when eaten.
King Xiong Sheng of Chu was still young. After playing for a while, he felt a little sleepy. When he returned to the warm room and stared at the fans for a while, President Li loudly invited the ministers of the Chu Kingdom to sit down and talk.
Different from the layout of Yingdu, there are many more tables, chairs and benches in Zhugong Palace at this time, both wooden and bamboo. Because of the cold winter, the tops are wrapped with cattails, then wrapped with a layer of linen and two layers of embroidered silk.
The overall appearance is quite good, and it is comfortable to sit on without getting cold on the buttocks.
"Are you all full?"
President Li was holding a tea cup and looking at them with a smile like a veteran cadre.
The people who come here are mainly the Qu family, the Chi family, the Du family, the Yun family, the Er family, the E family, the Ruo Ao family, and the Dou family, which are not included in this list.
This is also more in line with the current power structure of the Chu State. Although the Chu State has lost all its eastern territories, and its hard work for more than a hundred years has been in vain, but for the Dou family, their right to speak in the Chu State
, directly expanded to the highest level in history.
In addition, the country is in ruins, and there is only a queen mother who sells out the secrets to the outside world to preside over the overall situation. As long as she flatters the queen mother on the surface, the situation underneath is completely under the control of the head of the Dou family. It can be said that he wants to do whatever he wants.
Play however you want.
Land that could not be annexed before can be annexed; enemies that could not be attacked before can now be attacked; officials and titles that could not be touched before can now be rewarded.
Any virtue that is not worthy of its place is just fart.
The Dou family is the most powerful in Yingdu, and the only one who can do it is probably Sima Xiangba, but this guy is a "deep sea", and few others know about him.
I would only think of giving him a gift when I was on an errand.
So despite the fact that King Chu Xiong Sheng has many loyal ministers here, all of them look tragic and afraid that Li Jie will kill King Chu. In fact, it is all bullshit, all business, and there is no way out. Come to King Chu, at least you have someone.
With a good reputation, you can also eat and drink freely.
The most important thing is that the food is really good and the accommodation conditions are really good.
Why do you think the Han people thought of using coal stoves? This house is quite cheerful!
Fortunately, the coal stove was reused, and President Li still asked the Crocodile Man to publicize the carbon monoxide poisoning issue everywhere, thus avoiding many vicious incidents in which the local dignitaries of Zhugong Palace lost their entire families since the beginning of winter.
"I wonder what the man's orders are?"
The people from the Chiang family spoke first, and they were not talking about the Qu family. The people from the Du family were just cowardly. In fact, the Chiang family still had some kind of relationship with someone like Li.
Today's Huainan Shaopi was built by their ancestors.
The so-called "Sun Shuao moved to the sea", this "sea" refers to the water conservancy project, and specifically to the actual project, it is the reclamation and drainage of Shaopi.
And this "Sun Shu'ao" was the head of the Jiang family, but he was very old and died sixty or seventy years before the old monster took over the Jianghuai River.
But this did not prevent Li Jie from becoming friends with them, because Huaizhong City vigorously developed water conservancy projects, and after the reputation of being "thirsty for talents" spread, a large number of "Shaopi survivors" came to seek refuge.
These people are actually the former small branch of the Chiang family. With the development of the Chu people, the rise and fall are naturally directly related to the strength of the country.
At this time, the Jiang family was already dead, not to mention this small branch. However, because Li Jie vigorously developed the water conservancy facilities in Huainan and Huaibei in Huaizhong City, the former small branch of the Jiang family became prosperous again.
However, in order to distinguish them, the Huainan family changed their surname to the sound of the word "shao" in "Shaopi", which was regarded as a statement to Li Jie that they were willing to work for Li Jie in Huainan for a long time.
It's just that when the Huaishui Bofu was collecting it, the word "shao" was recorded as "que", that is, the pronunciation of the two words is similar to "que". When the Que family thought about it, this was quite good, and it was in line with their style.
Family professionalism.
Because "Que" means digging, the Que family expressed their stance to Li Jie that they were willing to build a nice-sounding and easy-to-use excavator in Huainan.
With this "origin" in mind, when Li Jie asked these close and loyal ministers of the King of Chu to question him, Chiang naturally wanted to appear friendly when he spoke.
"I can't talk about it, I just want to discuss something with you."
Li Jie looked at the crowd with a smile on his face and said, "It's true that I plan to conquer the rebels in Handong, but I still have to give them a chance to change their ways. As long as you can convince any family to surrender, no matter where it is,
If you convince one person, you will be rewarded with a pearl or an 'East China Sea Glass Bead'. If you convince 10,000 people, you will be rewarded with 10,000 people. There is no upper limit, how about that?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
As soon as this statement came out, all the loyal ministers around the King of Chu were shocked. They had just finished eating and drinking, and their stomachs were actually a little full. At this time, they thought about it, exercise is helpful for digestion, and they rushed to tell Li Jie
They said they wanted to go for a walk in Handong to get more exercise.