Born short-lived

Aldan frowned with a look of embarrassment, and said: "In recent years, there have been very few mines in Sri Lanka, and many laborers have changed their careers. There is really a shortage of manpower, and they have been frequently harassed by the black flag bandits recently. loss."

Only then did Dong Sheng remember that since the new king took office, there have been fewer and fewer gem mines mined by Silan.Compared with his father, Aldan has a lot more brains.It is said that scarcity is the most precious thing. The mining volume here has decreased, but the demand outside has not decreased. The price of this Nanyang jewelry has doubled in a short time.

But there is a problem with this. When the price rises, fewer people will buy it, and thousands of workers lose their jobs in an instant. The national treasury is not rich enough to support so many people.

So he thought of a way to open factories in Sri Lanka in the past few years to do some simple processing of the mined gemstones. Those workers who are willing to use their brains to learn something will not starve to death. The gemstones with labor costs are quite different from the original mines.And because most of these factories are opened and controlled by the state, although the profits have not yet fully increased, there are signs of gold coins returning to the treasury.When they gradually developed, Slan almost stopped exporting raw gemstones.

It’s just that it affects the whole body, domestic labor costs have also risen a lot, and the remuneration granted to workers is also increasing year by year, so this time Hua Xu paid the original labor costs to open others’ jobs. The original ore touched the new king's inverse scales, so it's no wonder that this person made things difficult for him all the way.

What Aldan meant by making such a fuss is probably just one sentence - add money, and the goods will be paid only after adding money.

But I don't know why, even though the salary has been raised, people's livelihood still hasn't improved.

Ajiaxi raised his eyebrows, and retorted in a strange way; "Brother, what are you talking about? Silan and Hua Xu have been friends for generations, so we can't afford this loss?"

This person looks very similar to Aldan, but compared to Aldan, his eyebrows are more delicate.But for some reason, this young man gave people an extremely uncomfortable feeling for no reason. His eyes covered with slender eyelashes always seemed to contain thorns, and he felt uncomfortable just looking at them.

"My younger brother is generous, but my brother Silan, how can I spend your money all the time?" Aldan poked back coldly, making Ajiaxi show his eyes wide with anger, but he couldn't say a word.

"Uh... so that's the case, your country still has such difficulties," Dong Sheng didn't quite understand what the trouble between the two brothers was, and twitched the corners of his mouth with a fake smile, "Since it's me, Hua Xu, who messed up The rules come first, your country must not be able to bear this loss alone, I will definitely report to His Majesty, and give some subsidies according to your country's market price."

"Then I would like to thank the envoy." Aldan smiled and toasted a glass of wine, while Ajiaxi's expression became more and more gloomy.

"Your majesty is out of sight. I, Hua Xu, have been friends with your country for generations. We should understand each other." Dong Sheng continued to say with a smile, "I think that when I, Hua Xu, founded the country, it was thanks to your country." Only then did I find the Sword of Rebirth."

At this point, Aldan's smile froze suddenly, and his eyes became more and more cold: "The old things are nothing to worry about."

Aldan still has this point in his heart.Back then, his grandfather did not voluntarily hand over the sword of life. Before the founding of the country, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were in chaos. As a national gift to congratulate Huaxu on founding the country, he handed over the long-lost spirit sword of the dead.

Ajiashi pursed his lips calmly, rubbing the cup in his hand thoughtfully.

During the banquet, all the ministers were silent when they heard the words, for fear that if they said something wrong, Aldan would be angry.

"Where, your country can be said to have contributed a lot. Although there are still more than 20 Tiangang Lingwu left outside, they are all my Huaxu national treasures after all. They come back one by one." Dong Sheng said ambiguously.

Aldan looked hesitant, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said: "What the envoy said is very true."

Dong Sheng was about to press forward step by step, but unexpectedly, the silent person next to him suddenly pinched him hard secretly.Dong Sheng looked back at him suspiciously, and Xiang Sheng also stared back, meaning enough is enough.

Dong Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, and his face relaxed a little: "Anyway, this time I came to Sri Lanka, I still owe it to the king to take care of me."

"Why are the envoys being polite?" Aldan raised his eyebrows expressionlessly, "Speaking of which, tomorrow is the day for us to hunt in Wenxi Mountain. I don't know if the envoys are so fond of it?"

"Naturally there is."

"Then I don't know if the envoy is willing to honor me and share the joy with me?" Aldan asked with a smile.

Dong Sheng looked at the past life, and saw that he had no intention of objecting, so he cupped his hands and said, "It's disrespectful."

After drinking for three rounds, nothing important was said during the banquet.The increase in the price of labor costs in Sri Lanka is not a bad thing at all, but it needs to be taken back to the people in the Ministry of Households to discuss and agree on how to pay so that the Muslims will not make progress.

So after the dinner, Dong Sheng wrote a letter to the Queen, and the messenger Aldan arranged for him was already waiting at the gate of the Foreign Mission Hall, and delivered it to him as soon as the pen was written.

The courier probably had never seen an envoy with such ugly handwriting. He took the zhezi in his hand and looked at the four words "His Majesty's personal approval" on the outside. Don't ask the envoy if he took the wrong note.

While hesitating, Dong Sheng saw the man's thoughts, stared back coldly, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Why, what is the messenger waiting for?"

"Uh, no, let's set off here." Then he started on the road without stopping.

And because Dong Sheng didn't say anything wrong during the banquet, he didn't come to talk about him in the past life, and he retracted into the sword body and went to sleep once he returned to the foreign envoy hall.When Dong Sheng came to Sri Lanka this time, he brought a lot of books, most of which were historical biographies of the art of war, and he would read them before going to bed.

Aldan heard that the envoy was interested in elegance, so he sent someone to prepare for him a set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones used by the Huaxu people.

And Dong Sheng didn't like reading at first, and he got a headache when he saw the words, but now he has to learn even if he studies, and he has to learn even if he doesn't.He pushed himself hard, and he gradually got used to it. He can see what he should see, and he can learn what he should learn. He is originally talented, but he is really improving by leaps and bounds when he studies seriously.

It’s just that this night, for some reason, Dong Sheng’s old habit of absent-mindedness happened again, and "Zuo Zhuan" was spread out in front of his eyes like a heavenly book.Dazed and not knowing what he was thinking, he casually pulled out a piece of paper from the drawer, dipped a pen in the ink in his boredom, and began to scribble freely.

He sent a letter to Zhou Zirong before, and he reckoned that it was about time to arrive.Before he came to Sri Lanka, he had been locked in the deep mountains and old forests. The old man tried his best not to let him communicate with the outside world. , he seized the opportunity to send a letter to Zhou Zirong.

After leaving the East China Sea for several months, Zhou Zirong is the only old person who can miss him.Dong Sheng has always had a lot of cronies, but after Zeng Fenglei's death, he found that Zhou Zirong was his only concern.Even though those friends with wine and meat were just talking and laughing, but after parting ways, he felt that there was no need for more contact. As for those "confidantes" in the brothel, he also knew that they were just playing on the spot and leaving tea to cool down. .

In his heart, Zhou Zirong is both a brother and a friend, and he has been treating him with the utmost affection and kindness for so many years.

That night, all the words were blocked in my heart. No matter how I wrote it, I felt that it was wrong.After writing and kneading, kneading and writing, the dumpling of waste paper that was all over the floor was scolded bloody by the lady who cleaned the house furiously.

In the end, it was delayed until before his departure, the time was running out, and the emperor called urgently, so he finally wrote eight words in a hurry, "Be safe and don't read it, Dong Sheng wrote it himself".

Right now, he only wants the two to be well, and to let Zhou Zirong not worry too much, but such a poetic mood of affection is completely destroyed by his unbearable handwriting.

He still remembered that in the East China Sea, Zeng Fenglei asked the old gentleman to teach him to read.The old man was very knowledgeable and elegant, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood because of his unrefined handwriting.Every time he was asked to practice calligraphy, he would be lazy in every possible way, either fooling around or asking Zhou Zirong to write for him.

In a state of desperation, the old gentleman commented on the word "ugly as a dog" in an inelegant manner.

This evening, Dongsheng didn't have the heart to study, and he was in the middle of his elegant mood. He planned to write a poem and send it to Donghai to express his heart.I just finished writing halfway, so I disgusted myself enough, and I rubbed it in a bad way before I wrote it.

In the end, I decided to go back to basics, and wrote stroke by stroke: "I haven't seen you in a few months, how are you doing?" Later, I thought that I couldn't let Zhou Zirong know where I was, so I couldn't get him to reply, so I hurriedly wrote again. I wrote some to cover up the past, but as a result, I wrote more and more. In the blink of an eye, I had already written two full sheets of paper.

After finishing writing, Dong Sheng looked at the two big dog-gnawing bodies, and felt that it was true and sincere, and he was very satisfied, so he waved his hand and used it to fabricate a book-transmitting spirit bird, muttering something in his mouth, Open the window and send it out.

The hunting of the Slans is different from that of the Huaxu people. The hunting organized by the Huaxu royal family is actually a game of status between the emperor and generals.

Every winter hunting, there are not only a lot of sacrificial ceremonies, but also how much the emperor will fight, how much the emperor's relatives will fight, and how many first-rank ministers will fight. Without the emperor's special order, he couldn't fight more than the first-rank civil servants, and in the end he had to talk about some reasons of "healthy and abnormal performance".

But the Slans fight as hard as they can, they don't talk nonsense, they start killing as soon as they go up the mountain, and I don't know why the mountain hasn't been slaughtered for so many years.

An hour after the hunting started, Aldan had already killed a deer and three hares, which was quite fruitful.Satisfied, he took the third dead rabbit's ear, threw it into the arms of his entourage, and ordered in Slan, "Fit it up for me."

"Wang Shangyingwu, you have hit so many so quickly, you can tell those Huaxu people to open their eyes." The attendant hurriedly took the dead rabbit, smiling so much that his eyes narrowed into two slits.The man was rather stocky, with a dark face like a baked potato.

Aldan always finds the haughty appearance of the Huaxu people not pleasing to the eye, so this sentence is very useful to him, he "hummed" and said with a smile; "Most Huaxu people are rich and idle, especially the sons of these princes and nobles. A man is more precious than a woman."

"That's natural. They usually only look at people with their nostrils, and now they have to frustrate their spirits."

"Yeah." Aldan smiled with satisfaction, and then instructed, "That's all for now, don't talk about it outside."

"My subordinate understands."

"Your Majesty." A voice suddenly came from behind, and when Aldan heard the Jin Wen, he knew it was Jiang Huaiwen.