Huang E and his senior servants greeted Wang Yuan at the main entrance.
Two foreign girls, Xiangxiang and Qiyun, were also there. Xiangxiang had grown taller. Qiyun had grown even faster. A ten-year-old girl had grown two or three inches taller in one year.
"Second brother," Huang E asked Wang Yuan for the child after asking for it from the nanny, "This is the first day of junior high school. I'm waiting for you to come back and name me."
People who are born on the first day of the lunar new year are also nicknamed Chu Yi, which means "to start the new year". Could it be called Wang Qinian?
Wang Yuan secretly sweated a little. Before he traveled through time, he occasionally saw the golden supporting character "Wang Qinian" running around everywhere and could be seen in many books. He couldn't name his son after a supporting character.
The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year's Day in the Ming Dynasty. Is it called Wang Yuan or Wang Dan?
Neither seems good.
This day is the Sui Dynasty, so is it called a Dynasty?
And Mahan!
This day is also called Yuan Shuo, then it is called Wang Shuo?
Hmm...I always feel like I'm scolding someone.
"Let's call it Wang Su," Wang Yuan explained. "Su means origin, quality, and sincerity. The ligature is also taken together, so the word is 'Tai Su'. Tai Su is the beginning of quality, and he is the first month of the first lunar month."
Once born, I hope to bring essential innovations to the Ming Dynasty."
Huang E suddenly beamed: "Su'er, what a good name!"
In his sleep, Wang Su frowned, as if he was not satisfied with the name.
Huang E welcomed Wang Yuan and entered through the main entrance. Xiang Xiang was a concubine and could only go through the side door with the servants. Wang Yuan did not correct this inequality in personality. Otherwise, how could he explain to Huang E that he wanted to be a concubine?
And go beyond etiquette?
After entering the house, Wang Yuan and Huang E had a private conversation for a while, and the housekeeper Zhou Chong came to report the situation.
Mainly the income from the farmland and chicken farm was left to Zhou Chong, while Huang E personally managed the family home.
The same is true of Zhuangtian. Unless chemical fertilizers are invented, it will be difficult to grow flowers.
The scale of the chicken farm has continued to expand, and now there are more than 6,000 chickens. The earthworms cultivated have long been insufficient, and grains are often used as feed.
After listening to it casually, Wang Yuan didn't take it to heart. Anyway, his various properties would randomly send students (paid) to check the accounts regularly.
"Is Ah Hei okay?" Wang Yuan asked.
I didn’t take my beloved horse to Hangzhou this time. There was no war anyway, so there was no need to travel long distances.
Zhou Chong replied: "Reporting to my second brother, except for feeding at night, I feed him by myself during the day. I brush Ah Hei every day and lead him around. He is always very energetic."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Let's go and have a look together."
The lifespan of a horse is twenty to thirty years, with the highest recorded lifespan being sixty years. Ah Hei is still a middle-aged horse now, but will enter the ranks of old horses in a few years.
Arriving at the stable, Ah Hei recognized the owner at first sight and leaned over to rub him affectionately.
She has four mares as wives and has given birth to six children.
The eldest son is even three years old. He is quite a steed. After training, he can ride it to fight. Wang Yuan plans to give it to Yuan Da. After all, Yuan Da follows him around all year round and goes to the battlefield a lot. He just needs a good horse that can be used.
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"Yuan Er, this horse belongs to you. Hurry up and train it well." Wang Yuan said.
Yuan Da grinned and said, "Thank you, second brother."
Zhou Chong said: "It is usually trained. Brother Yuan only needs to get familiar with it."
Wang Yuan rode Ah Hei, and Yuan Da rode Ah Hei's son. The two of them ran around the Wang family's house, and then they went back to eat feeling comfortable.
Huang E called Xiangxiang over as usual, and Xia Chan and Qiyun stood by to wait on him.
Xu hadn't seen each other for a year, so Xiangxiang felt a little unfamiliar, so she timidly called out: "Husband."
Wang Yuan smiled and praised: "Not bad, the accent has been corrected a lot."
Xiangxiang said: "My sister has been teaching me to speak Chinese. Qiyun and I can already recite the Three Character Classic and the Thousand Character Classic. By the way, when the prince (Zhu Dangqi) sent someone to give him the sword, my father also Letters and wool were sent, and I learned to knit a sweater each for my husband and sister."
Over in the Western Region, the situation has improved slightly, but there is still a bit of food shortage for the time being.
Wool spinning mills are developing well, and wool is very popular in Gansu, which can be exchanged for grain, tea and ironware. Mongolian tribes shear sheep and send them to Turpan to exchange for daily necessities. Of course, they occasionally engage in tea and horse trade with Gansu.
Yeerqiang Khan and Xiliang King Zhu Dangqie met and swore an alliance in the Gobi Desert, each promising not to attack the other.
Zhu Dangqi naturally wanted to farm and develop, but his capital was too weak.
Ye'erqiang Khan also had to stabilize the internal situation, and by the way, he launched a mad attack on Sali Uighur last year.
The Sali Uighurs live widely in southern Xinjiang and all believe in Buddhism. They are right next to the Yeerqiang Khanate. They have different religious beliefs and are very weak. Naturally, they became the main target of the Yeerqiang Khan.
Historically, most of these Sali Uighurs who believed in Buddhism were forced to move to Gansu and formed a brand new nation: the Yugu people.
But now, these people were attacked by the Yeerqiang Khanate, and some moved to the cities of Turpan and some to the cities of Hami, which greatly increased the population of the Western Regions of China. King Zhu Dangqi of Xiliang finally had no shortage of people. It has almost returned to the level during Mansuer's rule, and all the new population are Buddhists.
"By the way," Huang E suddenly asked, "I heard from Chan'er that you adopted an adopted daughter in Hangzhou?"
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "She is considered an adopted daughter. I hired a wet nurse to take her with her. She is already over half a year old. The child is too young and I was afraid that she would not be able to withstand the storm at sea, so I did not bring her back to Beijing together."
Huang E was quite curious: "Why do you suddenly think of your adopted daughter?"
Wang Yuan explained: "In several provinces south of the Yangtze River, there is a bad custom of infant drowning. Firstly, extravagant marriages are common, and marrying a daughter can easily break up the family; secondly, there is a superstitious belief that the first birth of a female baby is unlucky, and if she does not drown, she will not be able to have another son. Therefore, those who drown female babies Everyone, I guess someone was reluctant to spoil his daughter and was afraid of marrying her and ruining the family, so he abandoned his daughter outside the Governor's Mansion."
Although Xia Chan went to Zhejiang, she didn't know about this kind of thing. She exclaimed together with Huang E, Xiangxiang and Qiyun: "There is still such a custom?"
"It's so terrible. How can parents have the heart to drown their own flesh and blood?" Huang E said in disbelief, "I didn't understand it deeply before. Only after I gave birth to Su'er did I know how it feels to be a mother. But Su'er couldn't move after sleeping for a long time. I'm afraid something might happen to him, so I have to check my breathing to feel relieved. Aren't the consciences of parents who dote on their daughters made of flesh?"
Wang Yuan sighed: "Although it is cruel for ordinary people to indulge their daughters, it is still understandable. What I hate the most is those big families who can obviously afford to raise their daughters and pay dowries, but they indulge their daughters and wash their children because of superstitious rumors. Li Bohan, the third only grandson of Li Min, the number one scholar in the Chenghua Dynasty, was exiled from the army because of spoiling his daughter, and I also sent Li Bohan's mother and wife to the Jiaofang Division."
Huang E was somewhat sympathetic and said: "Even if he punishes his wife, there is no need to accuse his mother."
Wang Yuan said with an ugly face: "After interrogation by Chang Lun, the magistrate of Qiantang, the decision to drown the baby was made by Li Bohan's mother. She had only given birth to a single child, and her son had been married for many years but had not given birth. She was afraid that she would not be able to have a grandson, so she ordered her granddaughter to be killed.
Drowned to death. Li Bohan is a foolish and filial man. He will do whatever his mother says."
Huang E was speechless for a moment.
Wang Yuan then talked about what he did in Zhejiang, which made them dumbfounded.
Xia Chan couldn't help laughing and said: "No wonder someone in the Governor's Mansion asked me if Governor Wang usually uses magic at home, and if it can cool the house when the summer is hot. It turns out that the master can communicate with the gods."
The girls laughed.
After the meal, his son finally woke up. Wang Yuan hugged him and teased him a few times, which made Su'er burst into tears and he quickly returned him to his wet nurse to pat him.
In the afternoon of that day, several friends and disciples came to Wang's house to visit and reminisce.
At night, nothing to say, omit it.
The next day, Wang Yuan went to the Leopard Room to meet the imperial concubine, and then the army was ready to go out.
Zhu Houzhao deliberately planned to go on a personal expedition. He first asked the eunuch Zhang Yong to set off with more than ten thousand elites from the Beijing camp, on the pretext that the Mongolian barbarians were coming to seize the border again. Then he fled lightly, and then asked Xu Tai and others to lead the Baofang border troops to go on the expedition. The emperor now had
There are more than 20,000 troops directly under the army.
But Zhu Houzhao still felt unsure, and asked Wang Yuan to bring 6,000 soldiers to support him. Moreover, those 6,000 soldiers were all trained by Wang Yuan himself, so there should be no problem in commanding them.
Wang Yuan's temporary position this time was as the right minister of the Ministry of War, serving as the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
Also, Wang Yuan's governor of Zhejiang did not step down from office, and was actually the governor of the three provinces.
You may be able to find the governors of the three provinces by searching through Chinese history, but at the same time, the governors of the northern and southern provinces that are not connected are only Scorpion Baba.