Good Life in Qin Dynasty

For breakfast, there is only one porridge, pumpkin porridge.

Li Jiyang was happy when he saw the pumpkin porridge: "Now this pumpkin can be eaten!"

"Of course it can be eaten. It has been planted for three years." Ying Zheng served a bowl of porridge to Li Jiyang: "I asked someone to make spiced mutton and spicy cabbage. It goes well with it."

There are a lot of fresh things, but Ying Zheng always adheres to the principle of being cautious. When things are planted, they are fed to the animals first; The death penalty was changed to lifelong hard labor; then the food can be eaten by several neighboring countries; and it will be promoted in Daqin after they are also free to eat.

Now that the pumpkin has been tested repeatedly and proved to be harmless to the human body, he will let Li Jiyang make it for him to eat.

Even though he has a master who is a god, he doesn't want Li Jiyang to be in danger.

Li Jiyang drank two bowls of pumpkin porridge, but Ying Zheng stopped him: "Drink less, this food is not enough to fill you up, eat some steamed stuffed buns? Five-flavor mutton is also fine!"

How can you be full with just porridge?

In fact, their breakfast is very rich. In addition to pumpkin porridge, spiced mutton and spicy cabbage, there is also a large table of breakfasts such as pork buns, seafood steamed buns, tomato and egg soup, etc. from the imperial dining room.

There are eight side dishes alone, but the amount is not large to avoid waste.

In fact, the leftovers from their meals are usually shared by the servants close to them and will not be thrown away.

But this can't be said clearly, because it's not in compliance with the rules, but as long as the emperor and the emperor don't say anything, everyone will treat it as nothing.

"Then let's eat a steamed stuffed bun. Let's have a vegetarian stuffed cabbage. Don't want big meat. It's so greasy early in the morning. I don't have an appetite." Li Jiyang doesn't want to eat meat, so what kind of meat should he eat in the morning?

The thought of being greasy is off-putting.

Fortunately, Manager Jiang had someone prepare it long ago: "Your Majesty, this is a steamed bun stuffed with seafood, would you like to try it?"

Seafood is at least meat stuffing, you can't let Junshang eat vegetables all the time!

"Okay, let's eat stuffed seafood..." Li Jiyang is not picky about food, as long as it is not heavy on oil and meat: "By the way, vegetable oil is used, right?"

If it is meat oil, it will still be greasy, right? ? ?

"Yes, it's vegetable oil. I heard from the chef in the imperial dining room that it's more refreshing with vegetable oil than with meat oil." Manager Jiang specifically explained: "There is also a saying about the dipping method. This is a separate dipping water."

Dip in water is soy sauce, Yuchu has developed seafood soy sauce specially dipped in seafood.

this is delicious!

Li Jiyang fell in love with it as soon as he ate one. He ate a whole drawer of steamed buns, but there were only six in a drawer.

However, Ying Zheng was satisfied, and deliberately told Mr. Jiang: "Reward the imperial dining room. Your Majesty likes to eat this seafood steamed stuffed bun. I come to two drawers every morning."

"No!" Chief Manager Jiang was also happy, it's not a big deal to get a reward, the main thing is to let the king eat easily.

Li Jiyang also nodded: "I will reward one too."

"That's great, two rewards, the Imperial Dining Room has paid two extra months of money this month!" When Yingzheng rewarded, Chief Manager Jiang responded as if he was doing business, with a rigorous and serious expression.

When he arrived at Li Jiyang's place, he was very happy and joked.

Both Ying Zheng and Li Jiyang laughed. Although there are many people in the palace, there may be few people who are prominent, especially in the imperial dining room.

It's good to be rewarded, but usually what they get is punishment...

Li Jiyang admired Manager Jiang even more.

You must know that there are many things that the emperor can't hide from the servants around him. Their identities are often between the emperor's servants, friends, and even relatives.

Therefore, since ancient times, although eunuchs have been strictly prohibited from intervening in politics in every dynasty and generation.

But no emperor could really and completely get rid of the influence of eunuchs, even Qin Shihuang couldn't avoid it.

It is said that the first person who noticed about the two of them was Jiang Neishi at that time, but Chief Manager Jiang never talked too much.

Ying Zheng's handling of talkative servants is particularly subtle, like Zhao Gao, for example.

He also entered the palace, and only then did he know that Zhao Gao was a butterfly because Zhao Gao wanted to be No. 1 in front of Ying Zheng, of course he had to get rid of Qin Anjun first.

Manager Jiang casually told him this. It is said that Zhao Gao's ending was not very good, since he was gone anyway.

So Li Jiyang is very polite to Chief Jiang, treating him as a butler, as a friend, Li Jiyang has seen the map and knows that it is the west of Xinjiang in later generations, but more than 2000 years ago, it was still full of trees, and it was not a desert full of yellow sand. .

The newcomer Xi Rong is here to seek refuge, but everyone is not optimistic about this branch of Quan Rong.

But when Li Jiyang heard that the leader of Xirong was surnamed Yuchi, he became interested: "Are you the Shanyu of Xirong?"

Now all the tribes are following the example of the Huns, calling their leader Shan Yu.

"Yes, Yuchi is the name of our tribe. After learning Qin dialect, we know that it is valuable to have a surname, but our tribe is not good at this, so we use the tribe's name as the surname."

Li Jiyang remembered that Yuchi was named after a tribe.

During the Wuhu chaos in China, Fu Jian defeated the Tuoba tribe in Xianbei, established the Dai State, and later Tuoba Lang restored the country, changing the name of the country to Wei, and it was called the Northern Wei Dynasty in history.

At the same time, another Yuchi tribe emerged from the Xianbei tribe, named Yuchi tribe, just like the vassal states of China.

Later, the Yuchi tribe entered the Central Plains with Emperor Xiaowen, and was ordered to take the family name Yuchi as the surname, called the Yuchi family.

Here is the record of the origin of the Yuchi family in later generations.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were even several generals named Yuchi.

After hearing what he said, Li Jiyang slowly opened his mouth and said: "There is a tribe named 'Yuchi' in the northwest region. Its ancestors are a branch of the Hu people in Central Asia. They speak Eastern Iranian, the Iranian language family of the Indo-European language family. The surname is 'Vj...ca', transliterated as 'Weichi', which means 'conqueror', 'victory'. After the Yuchi family united with the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei, they were called the 'Western Yuchi Clan', and gradually rose to become A tribe, called the "Yuchi tribe" by the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei."

This was said in detail, and everyone listened carefully, but it made the people from the Yuchi tribe break into a cold sweat.

There is a male queen in the state of Qin who was canonized as "Qin Anjun" by the late King Zhuang Xiang. Anyone who wants to know about this matter can know.

It's just that they didn't expect that this male queen would be so powerful. Even the dog slave Shanyu didn't know so clearly about the affairs of their Yuchi tribe, but a male queen in the deep palace of the Qin Kingdom knew so clearly, no wonder it was the work of a god. Apprentice!

Now I dare not hide it anymore: "Report to the emperor, the Yuchi tribe is suffering!"

If possible, they don't want to surrender to Qin casually, but they can't do without surrender!

Although I didn't hear clearly what the Central Yahu people were, but they were indeed composed of tribal survivors who were once annexed by the dog army.

That's why they left Quanrong so simply and neatly, and became Xirong.

Quanrong sent people to contact them and asked them to donate people, cattle, sheep, horses, and money. How could it be possible?

Quan Rong is now being beaten by the Qin State like a wandering lone wolf. Although he is fierce, he can't see the dawn.

If they have money and people, they might as well seek refuge in Qin!

At least the people of Qin State are indifferent to the surrounding vassal states, but they will not suppress them, let alone bully them for fun.

"What does what you said have anything to do with our state of Qin?" Li Jiyang looked at the tea leaves in the tea bowl and said, "Although Quan Rong is not tolerated by my Great Qin, you... are also a branch of Quan Rong."

Their births destined them to be lower than other vassal states and tribes, and Qin would not trust them too much.

In fact, from Li Jiyang's point of view, Qin State didn't trust outsiders at all except for its own people. Although those vassal states and tribes made contributions every year, Qin State didn't change at all for them.

When they were in disaster, the state of Qin would not help them.

Unless they merged into Qin State and became Qin people.

There are many requirements to become a Qin person, and stricter control, but it is undeniable that no one dares to bully a Qin person, because if a Qin person is bad, all Qin people will avenge him!

"The small department only wants to be safe, and will never betray Qin!" Xirong's envoy spoke almost tremblingly.

"Empty talk is useless, even if you talk about breaking the sky, it's useless!" Li Jiyang put down the teacup: "Tell me, what does Quan Rong want you to do?"

Xirong's envoys trembled: "...they let Xiaobu...feign surrender...."

Quan Rong not only wanted Xi Rong's people and things, but also wanted them as bait to feign surrender to Qin, either cooperating with the outside or luring the Qin army.

Xirong couldn't stand giving people things, let alone asking them to be bait?

Who doesn't know that Qin Jun has always been cruel to foreigners?If one refuses to accept it, he will be beaten, and if two refuse to accept it, he will be killed directly!

Hearing what Xi Rong said, Ying Zheng smiled: "Qu Rong is still so nasty."

This was the first time the Emperor Qin spoke, and he scolded Quan Rong!

"Okay, I understand your request. Since you want to surrender to Daqin, Daqin will not send you a tribe. However, if you want to get Daqin's protection, you have to see your sincerity. How about it, ten thousand dog soldiers People, those who want to live, those who can talk, those who are lively, young and middle-aged, if you capture ten thousand and offer them to Daqin, that is your sincerity." Ying Zheng flicked his sleeves: "Go down!"

If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, Li Jiyang really wanted to laugh out loud!

Ah Zheng also learned badly!

What is the total population of dog slaves?

Excluding the old and weak women, how many are young and strong?

After being chased away by Qin Jun all the way, how much is left after running for so long?

Losing another 1 people, they are still young and strong, the backbone of the tribe, they must not swallow Xirong alive!

In this way, Quanrong and Xirong must be incompatible.

Regardless of whether Xirong's goal is to seek the protection of Qin State, or to pretend to surrender, there is absolutely no peace between the two tribes, let alone such words as watching and helping each other.

The envoy of Xirong felt that he had a gall in his mouth, and the bitterness made him want to die!

The next envoy who came out had a strange tone of voice after saluting, but Li Jiyang was very curious about his origin.

Because he said: "The envoys of the Loulan Kingdom in the Western Regions, pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor of Qin, and Lord Qin An of the Great Qin!"

Everyone looked sideways at him, especially the Xirong envoy who went down just now, he only paid his respects to His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor, and did not say he was paying respects to Qin Anjun!