Chapter 97 Don’t want the Jiang family of Qi State Chen Jingshi had no shortage of money, and the house he bought in Kyoto was very spacious.
Zongjun went to visit with wine, meat and rice, saying it was a thank-you gift from the princess.
The person who received Zongjun was Chen Jingshi's eldest son, and there was no flaw in his used the excuse to reward the younger members of the clan for the princess and asked them to come and see them one by one.
There are a total of seven grandchildren. Except for the Chudi dialect, which is difficult to change for a while, everything else is normal.
They received the silver reward politely and knelt down to thank them.
Zong Jun said goodbye to the Chen family with a smile, feeling relieved at the same time but a little uneasy at the same time.
Sometimes it's too normal to be normal, as if it's perfectly concealing something.
Even though he was a personal entourage of Princess An, and even carried a badge that prohibited him from entering and exiting the Yong Palace, it was not easy to meet the King of Yong.
Zongjun first went to visit Li Wenzhou, and after waiting for three hours, he was finally able to take advantage of the small window after the ministers had left and the royal meal had not yet been served to meet with His Majesty.
There is an ice tripod in the hall, which is very cool.
Zhao Zheng held a cattail leaf fan in his hand, shook it gently and put it down.
The moment Zong Jun replied, he suddenly recognized that the cattail leaf fan was something he bought when he was in Luoyang, and he didn't know how he got here.
Moreover, His Majesty seemed to be in a better mood than usual, with a faint smile on his lips.
After knowing his intention, Zongjun lowered his head and waited.
He heard the sound of the cattail leaf fan being picked up, and felt a slight breeze blowing over his head. After a while, Zhao Zheng's cold voice came.
"Zongjun," he said, "Why did I ask you to follow Princess Anguo?"
He was asked to follow Princess An Guo when Her Royal Highness was exposed by Wei Ji, the prince of Wei State, and left Luoyang.
At that time, His Majesty was extremely angry and made excuses to drive him away, but let him follow Jiang He.
Zongjun immediately replied: "It is to convey the message and also to ensure that the food is non-toxic."
Zhao Zheng glanced sideways at Zongjun, and said in a deep voice, calm and authoritative: "Is it because you were sent to Chu State by her now because you didn't do your job well?"
Zongjun quickly knelt down to apologize.
Zhao Zheng added: "Since there is nothing wrong in doing anything, if the princess asks you to go to Chu, just go. Just remember what you are good at and what you can do."
He is good at detecting poisons. The princess asked him to visit Chen Jingshi's old house, but was it for this?
Zongjun kowtowed quickly, and for a moment it seemed as if the clouds had cleared and the fog had dispersed, and he was no longer confused and wandering.
"But I went to Chu State, I'm afraid..."
As soon as his words reached his lips, he reluctantly swallowed them.
In front of His Majesty, who dares to say anything worrying about Jiang He.
He is the only person who protects her and cares about her.
Sure enough, Zhao Zheng snorted coldly and said: "If you don't leave, are you waiting for me to invite you to dinner?"
Zong Jun was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. He knelt down to say goodbye and exited so fast that he almost rolled over on the spot.
The ink artist Cang Yan is indeed extraordinary.
Only three days after arriving in Hanqu, he climbed the mountain from eight directions, then drew a mountain shadow in the distance, locked himself in a tent and calculated the results behind closed doors. Seven days later, he presented the answer.
Cang Yan found the most labor-saving and time-saving method of digging mountains.
According to him, there is a natural cave in this mountain.
To open a canal, you don't have to split the entire mountain in half. You only need to dig through the front and rear caves, and then you can open the sluice gate and use the impact of the canal water to open up the inside of the cave.
In this way, the cave becomes part of Han Canal.
Such construction does not take three years.
As short as three months, as long as half a year, it is enough.
In order to confirm his statement, Cang Yan and Jiang He stood on the east side of the mountain and hit the rock with a heavy hammer.
After the sound of hitting the rock, faint echoes could be heard in the mountain.
Sure enough, there is a cave! Not only Jiang He, but also the always respectful Navy Master Zheng Xinguan could not help but touch his palms excitedly.
He walked a few steps and stood in front of Cang Yan, straightened his clothes, stepped back, and bowed respectfully.
What he gave was the most important etiquette, the kind of ceremony only given when facing a king, his relatives, and his master.
Zheng Xinguan's cheeks were red and excited. After getting up, he finally calmed down and couldn't help but said: "Mr. Great Virtue, the people in Guanzhong can drink Jingshui in advance! Next spring, there will be no more refugees starving to death!"
His eyes were moist, his lips were trembling, and he couldn't help himself.
Jiang He also became happy.
It seems the adventure was worth it.
Only Cai Ling, the little girl who had been following Jiang He, was a little dissatisfied.
"Navy master, don't worry," she said playfully, "With His Highness here, even if the canal cannot be repaired, the people will not starve to death."
"Yes, yes." Zheng Xinguan said with a smile on his face, "Having His Highness and Mr. Cang here is a blessing to the people of Guanzhong."
From ancient times to the present, ordinary people have always had the hardest time.
In times of prosperity, the ruling class ate meat and perhaps gave the common people a sip of vegetable soup.
If it declines, I'm afraid there won't even be vegetable soup left.
Regardless of wars, plagues, locust plagues, floods and droughts, it is always the nobles who have no worries about food and the people who dig in the soil for food have a hard time even surviving.
No matter what the ultimate purpose of Yong's canal construction was, even if more than half of the harvested grain was supplied to the army for fighting, at least the people could keep more.
There is no need to sell children or daughters for a mouthful of water, and there is no need to share a cellar of water with mosquitoes.
This all depends on a canal. This is not a gift from God, but a miracle built by the people with their hands.
Jiang He, a native of Qi, thought so while looking into the distance.
Zheng Xinguan, a Korean who built canals for foreign countries, also thought Cai Ling, a little girl whose ancestral home is from the Kingdom of Wei, thinks so.
In Shouchun, the capital of the Chu State, the house where Wei Nanxu lived was eerily busy.
Every morning, new slaves bought from Renyazi enter through the front door.
In the evening, the dead bodies covered with grass were thrown on carts, pushed out of the house and buried.
King Mi Fu of Chu turned a blind eye to what she had done.
When General Xiang Yan found out, he was very opposed to believed that it was too cruel to test the antidote on living people and suggested that Wei Nanxu use livestock instead.
“What do livestock know?”
In front of Mi Beichu, Wei Nanxu refuted: "Do they know where it hurts and where it itches? Do they know whether it is comfortable or uncomfortable? The general is so compassionate, but he doesn't know how to fight?"
Mi Fuchu nodded one after another and praised Wei Nanxu: "Miss Wei is really the best among girls."
Xiang Yan was so angry that he asked himself to guard the border and went north overnight.
As a result, Wei Nanxu became more unscrupulous and entered and exited the palace more often than before.
"Then what's so good about Zhao Zheng?"
The antidote matter has been fruitless. Facing the somewhat depressed Wei Nanxu, Mi Fuchu couldn't help but ridicule him.
"Miss Wei killed a lot of lives in order to develop this antidote for him."
Wei Nanxu looked at Mi Fuchu with a slightly stiff face, his eyes curled up, and he forced a smile.
"Aren't I doing this for Your Majesty?" She said softly, "When the time comes to seduce you with this antidote, Zhao Zheng will definitely offer it to the city, and then Your Majesty can take his place and conquer the world without spending a single soldier."
"Ha, ha, ha," Mi Fuchu laughed a few times and said, "Who cares? Maybe before your antidote is ready, I can kill Zhao Zheng."
Wei Nanxu looked slightly stern, thought for a while and said: "The slave family asked your majesty to send spies, but they didn't want Zhao Zheng to die now."
Mi Fuchu sneered and said nothing. Seeing Wei Nanxu's restless look, he relented and said, "No, he is so smart, how could he be easily deceived by my people?"
is it?
Wei Nanxu clenched his hands nervously.
Zhao Zheng is indeed very smart, but Mi Fuchu's plan this time is definitely beyond his imagination.
I hope he can stay away from Jiang He and not seek death.
"His Majesty."
The woman stood outside the door, speaking softly and curtsying.
Through the screen, you can see her neck exposed in her rich and beautiful clothes. She looks sexy and charming, which makes people feel particularly irritated when they look at her.
The selected girls whom Jiang He met that time had already followed Zhao Zheng's orders and been sent back to their places of appeared out of thin air today must have been the work of the Queen Mother.
"Come on!"
Zhao Zhengdao.
Immediately a doctor responded.
"Drag it out and chop it up."
The woman screamed and knelt down. Just as the doctor grabbed her sleeves, he heard a majestic voice yelling angrily: "Ai family, let's see who dares!"
The figure of the Queen Mother appeared.
She looked majestic in the night as she stepped into the hall.
Zhao Zheng did not salute, he just stood up and called "Mother".
No matter how indifferent their feelings were, in the eyes of the courtiers and the people, she was his mother and queen, the one he had to obey and be filial to.
"Your Majesty has repeatedly refused the Ai family to choose a concubine for you. Could it be that you are like the former King of Wei, and you have the advantage of Long Yang?"
"I don't have one," Zhao Zheng replied.
"Does Your Majesty know that you only have two and a half years to live?"
"I know." Zhao Zheng's voice was calm, as if it was not him who was about to die, but someone else who had nothing to do with him.
"Then since your majesty knows that our country, the Yong Kingdom, is about to be destroyed, why don't you take advantage of it...why don't you fulfill your filial piety and have a son?" Although the Queen Mother spoke harshly, she was also a little embarrassed.
"Mother," Zhao Zhengdao said, "the imperial doctor said that if your children do too much bed work, it will not be beneficial to the body."
Of course the imperial doctor didn't say that, it's just that Zhao Zheng didn't want to.
He is not a child-bearing machine, and his children do not want other lives.
Queen Mother Ji Man glanced sideways at Zhao Zheng, paced in the palace, and sighed coldly: "If your Majesty can't give birth to a child, what's the point of living for two or three more days?"
The atmosphere in the hall was a little stagnant. After a while, Zhao Zheng showed a smile on his face and said in a clear voice: "What the mother means is that as long as the child can be born, it doesn't matter if the son dies a year or two earlier?"
This inquiry did not make the Queen Mother feel wronged.
She looked up at Zhao Zheng, tears welling up in her eyes, but they were not tears of love, but tears of regret.
"The Ai family should have stopped you at that time to save Lord Chang'an. In this way, when you wait for the future... the Ai family will not have no one to rely on."
But Lord Changan wanted him to die.
Now his mother wants him dead too.
Zhao Zheng shook his head and walked out of the hall.
When he reached the entrance of the palace, he suddenly paused and said in a cold voice: "Mother, don't worry, someone will give birth to an heir for your son."
"The Ai family does not want the Jiang family of Qi!" The Queen Mother said quickly, "If she becomes the crown prince's mother, the Ai family may no longer have a place to live."
Zhao Zheng suddenly turned around and looked at her, the anger in his eyes spread like a long knife, and he took a step back in shock.
(End of this chapter)