Be a sick and weak noble son in Daqin

Wei Ji was amused by Sun Dajun's funny reaction. He felt that what Qin Gong and Wei Yang were going to say next was not suitable for them to be present, so he greeted Gongziqian and got up and pushed the wheelchair out.

"The apprentice is not filial, so the old man will go first." Wang Xu shook his head and sighed. After Wei Yang confirmed that there was no shortage of bamboo slips, he walked out slowly, "After all, Mr. Ji is the most caring."

"What the master said is that there is no more well-behaved and sensible child than Ji'er in the world." The young master answered the sentence seriously, patted Jingjian on the shoulder to let him stay, and then faced the old man together. Go to the door.

It's okay to let him fight, and he can talk about tactics and tactics just based on experience. He should not mix things like the new coup d'état, so as not to make jokes when the time comes.

Soon there were only Qin Gongwei, Yang Jingjian and Jing Jian left in the courtyard. The silence made people panic when no one spoke. Come on, or should I go too?"

"Ah? You haven't left yet?" Qin Gong waved his hands indifferently, as if he forgot that there was such a person beside him, he got up and took two steps and said to Wei Yang, "Sir, this small courtyard is really too big." It’s too simple, why don’t you go back to the palace with me, where no one disturbs you in the study, and you and I can talk freely?”

Jing Supervisor: ...

General Jing Jian, who was about to leave, watched helplessly as their master pulled the man into the carriage together, and couldn't take the steps he was going to take. The difference in treatment was too obvious, and he refused to accept it.

Several servants picked up the bamboo slips on the case and followed behind, leaving the former favored minister in a trance in the wind, lonely and miserable.

Junshang's heart is really elusive. Thinking about him, Jingjian is also a good hand at work. What kind of relationship between the monarch and his ministers when he entered and exited with Junshang back then. How long has it been since he was abandoned like this?

Those who heard it were sad and those who saw it wept. He was really miserable and couldn't be more miserable.

The burly man with a desolate look dragged his heavy steps to the yard not far away, and looked at the few people who were sitting together, who were familiar with the way, and sat beside him on a wooden pier. He didn't speak, and just held the Sighing on his face, Young Master Qian glanced at him, and finally he couldn't hold back and kicked him up.

"Young master, life is already so difficult, so don't embarrass me anymore." Jing Jian said weakly, and moved to Wei Ji with his strength, "Young master, do you have good wine for me?" Get drunk and relieve your worries?"

"You fucking miss the food and drink." Young Master Qian scolded with a smile, and then looked at Wei Ji expectantly, not only Jingjian, but also those drinks.

Wine making costs food, so Qin people seldom drink and have fun recklessly. Even wealthy families and even kings don't just drink a few sips of wine to be happy when they say it's okay.

There are many vassal states in the world, and the wines of each country have different tastes. The wines of Qin State are generally recognized as bitter and strong, and ordinary people can't drink them. Compared with the traditional soju, it is a bit lacking in taste.

Sorghum, corn, rice, barley, potato, rice bran, even Smilax cocos and kudzu root can be used to make wine. Unfortunately, these things are either far away from the mountains or the sea, or the price is too high. I don't have that much ability to fiddle with drinks.

In this era when food is precious, yeast koji and wine-making techniques are very backward, except for the aristocratic families who can make wine at home, the wine mixed with water in the wine shop outside is the best and delicious, because most of the merchants put it into the water. Blend it with wine and sell it as wine.

Water wine, water wine, water and wine are really good. Although there is a little more water in the wine tank, it still smells like wine.

Wei Ji hadn't tasted much wine. He was still young after all, and the people around him deliberately kept him away from these things, so he had no idea about spirits at all. Until not long ago, Master Sun gave him a taste of what he called the bitterest and strongest drink. old Qin wine.

Maybe it's because of his extraordinary talent, or maybe he already has a preconceived impression of spirits in his mind. Anyway, the so-called bitterest and strongest old Qin wine is really not as amazing as he imagined.

He didn't have anything serious to do all day long, and his wine shop happened to be in front of the door, so he simply tried to see if he could make some high-alcohol drinks.

Wine shop, wine shop, what kind of wine shop is there without wine?

Now all kinds of delicious food are in the stage of enlightenment, but there are many different methods of distilling wine for thousands of years in later generations. The wine distilled from Daqu has a mellow taste. Daqu is wheat koji. Afterwards, he returned to sweetness, but using barley to make wine is too extravagant, and the brewing of Daqu wine takes a long time. Even if there are enough grain raw materials in front of him, he can't make wine in a short time.

Xiaoqu wine fermented from rice koji is not as mellow as Daqu wine, but it has a sweet and fragrant flavor, which is in line with the taste of Chu people in the south. Besides, it is glutinous rice wine.

Bran koji is cheaper than barley and rice, and koji can be cultivated with bran. The yield of the wine is relatively high, and the time required is shorter than that of Daqu wine and Xiaoqu wine. Although the taste is not as good as the former two, if the process is not If there is a mistake, the fermentation can be completed in four or five days.

Then put strong wine and grains into the retort to steam, let the steam rise, and use a vessel to take out the wine drops, and any rancid wine can be steamed... It is as clear as water and has a very strong taste.

It is not ordinary people who can do wine shop business. The wine shop industry in Yueyang has not yet developed, and they are the only place where literati, Yashida, officials and dignitaries taste wine and gossip.

The method of brewing wine is in the hands of a few people. If they can build such a wine shop in Liyang City, they will naturally have their own source of wine. No need to open it.

After several attempts at the work in the workshop, the shochu was successfully steamed, but it was easy to steam the wine, but it was not so easy to pick it up. A lot of raw materials were used, but only a small jug of wine was received.

The cost of brewing wine is too high without the tools for steaming wine, so Wei Ji gave up the idea after just trying it once.

He didn't plan to make any more wine, and the successfully distilled jar became a hot commodity. After tasting a little, Sun Boling felt that he couldn't bear it and retreated to the back, but Gong Ziqian was different. It feels completely irresistible.

Old Qin wine is bitter and strong, and has not changed for thousands of years. However, craftsmen have brewed wine for thousands of years, and have never brewed such clear and translucent pure wine.

It looks very similar to clear water, but it burns like a knife in the mouth. Tears will come out. After the initial stimulation, there will be a mellow and soft aftertaste, and the rich wine aroma is endless aftertaste.

Young Master Qian smacked his lips, remembering the last time the idiot who wasted everything and poured the whole bowl of wine into his stomach was so regretful that his intestines were green. If he had known that the wine was so powerful, he would have kept it and sipped it slowly.

"Ji'er, you are too young to drink alcohol. Mr. Sun doesn't like such strong alcoholic beverages and keeps them at home. How about I exchange ten jars of Xifeng wine with you?"

It's not that the state of Qin doesn't have good wine, but now he is itching to think about the remaining half of the jug of shochu. Young Master Qian is trying to achieve his goal by means of exchange, and he has the posture of vowing not to give up until he gets the last of the good wine.

"If you like it, just let someone from the mansion go to the workshop to learn the method, why bother to keep staring at this point?" Wei Ji looked at this person helplessly, how simple things are, he hides from others but doesn't care He will hide your son Qian, why is he so greedy?

"You just said whether to change or not?" The young master evaded and did not answer, just sat there and refused to let go of a question. The child is still too kind, with such a heart, it is fortunate that someone is protecting him, otherwise he would not be able to He was sold and helped to count the money.

It’s okay to release the method for food or something, but the wine is different. This thing is just as profitable as salt and iron. Whoever gets the new recipe is not hiding it for fear that others will know it. Why is it so casual in the eyes of this kid? What can you tell others?

It is true that he is a good person, but there is no guarantee that everyone he meets in the future will be as good as him. What if he encounters a sinister and cunning person?

Young Master Qian shook his head and sighed, watching Wei Ji turn back to the house to fetch wine, and then said to the baby-faced young man sitting next to him, "If there is no military advisor, Ji'er's temperament will suffer a lot."

"Young master's words are wrong. Master Ji is gentle and polite to others, and he doesn't like to go out. Even if he wants to suffer, he has no chance." Military Master Sun retorted solemnly. Bing, even the old man who buys vegetables is from the army, if someone has no eyesight to come over and make trouble, why does he, a guy who can't even run fast, come forward?

Having said that, no one was looking for trouble in the past because the outsiders didn't know what they were like. Today, they showed their faces in front of so many courtiers of the Qin State, and the days to come might not be as stable as they are now.

The baby-faced young man in the wheelchair squinted his eyes, sat up straight and asked warmly, "Young Master, who is that person sitting opposite Boling today?"

The old god with gray hair looks like a Taoist immortal. Old Qianlong sitting there is easy to recognize. After all, he is the only one in the court of Qin Dynasty. He is so old and holds a high position. The guy who started to stare at them when he saw them sat away from him. Very close, presumably the status will not be low.

Young Master Qian curled his lips, cut it, and then said disdainfully, "Doctor Du Zhi, the bastard who wants to say a few sour words when he has nothing to do. I think he is just stupid in reading."

Jing Jian held a sour jujube in his hand, and was shocked to hear their eldest son speak so impolitely. Eldest son, he is a Chinese doctor in our Qin country after all. okay?

"There are many old clans in the state of Qin, and the Gan family and the Du family are the leading ones." General Jing Jian took a bite of the fruit, and introduced to Sun Boling who Du Zhi was while eating, in order to prevent their paternal son from saying anything scary.

There are not many educated people in the state of Qin, and most of the officials can take office with just a few words. There are not many people who are well-educated in poetry and books like the senior doctor Qian Long and the Chinese doctor Du Zhi.

If you want to be an official in other countries, you need to dabble in several courts. They are different in Qin State. They don't need to be proficient. As long as they can read more than others, they can be invincible in the court.

Quarreling is a technical job, the comparison between scholars and rough people like them is so obvious, how can they fight those scholars by playing tricks?

Wei Ji came out with a mud-covered wine jar, and what he saw was General Jing Jian's clear analysis of the situation in the court of Qin State. Military Master Sun listened with great interest, even if there were interruptions from time to time by Gong Ziqian, he still listened with gusto. .

He often sits idle in the wine shop, and Qin State finally had a place where elegant people can talk about state affairs like Wei State and Qi State, so there are a lot of news that can be heard in the wine shop.

Qianlong Du Zhi went on a pilgrimage to keep the old, saying that there is no benefit without a hundred changes in the law, and that the merits are not easy to achieve. They are very popular in Qin State, and most people in the court are like them. innocent".

The state of Qin has not changed much for hundreds of years. It is unreasonable for the new king to succeed all the previous government orders. There have been many changes during the reign of the previous king. Although Qin has more victories and fewer losses on the battlefield , but the consumption of national power is unprecedentedly huge. If the new king comes again, Qin is afraid that it will perish.

Jing Jian couldn't help but start to sigh as he spoke. His family's lord wanted to strengthen Qin, and now with Wei Yang, he is like a fish in water. The new deal seems to be just around the corner, but there are more people in the court who don't want to change.

"Your Majesty is not in a hurry, what are you worrying about here?" Wei Ji smiled and opened the mud seal, took a few small bowls and poured out the wine, then looked at the sad-faced man of Qin State and said, " Here, let's drink away your worries."

"Ji'er, I'm also worried." Gongziqian sighed quietly, looked at the smiling young man and said that he was too worried now, and there were so many people in the court trying to trip up his younger brother. Brother, can you not worry?

How can we lose him by drinking to drown our sorrows?

"Young master, I'm not stupid, on the contrary I'm smart, so you can't fool me." Wei Ji winked at him, poured half a bowl for Sun Boling, and passed the jar over.

Although the old clans in the Qin State are powerful, if the monarch is determined to do something, they can't stop them even if they all get together, because in this country, the most powerful clan is the Ying clan.

Because Qin State is very poor from top to bottom, apart from the monarch, there are not many clans that can afford private soldiers. Even if Qin State does not restrict the development of clans in private, they will not be able to develop. Who made them poor from top to bottom.

Duke Qin's succession to the throne has still failed to stabilize the old clans, but the country does not use the word turmoil to describe it. The reason why the old clans of the Qin State are called the old clans is because when the ancestors of the Qin State acquired this land, , Who was the one who followed him to fight Xirong to grab the territory, and now those who are assisting Qin Jun are still the same.

Due to various reforms in the Shandong Kingdom, countless clans were born and destroyed in the country. I don’t know how many times they have been changed over the past few hundred years, but Qin has not. The Shandong countries look down on this small country in the west. Very little communication with them.

Because of the poverty that has been inherited from top to bottom, the gap in living standards between the old clan and the common people is not as large as that of the Shandong countries, so this land is far more stable than the big country in the Central Plains east of Xiaoshan Mountain that followed the etiquette and respect. .

The people of Qin are brave and good at fighting. Whether they are the children of the public clan, the clan children or the common people, if there is a battle, they have to rush forward with weapons and fight desperately. No one's life is more precious, so even if the state of Qin is so poor, it can still survive. Standing here to support one side of the vassal state.

They are old-fashioned, stubborn, and they stick to the rules of their ancestors and refuse to change, but no one would say that he does not want Qin to become stronger, like Qian Long, and so is Du Zhi.

If Duke Qin decides to reform, no one can stop him even if the whole court opposes it, not to mention that he is not alone and helpless. It's not that the people of Qin can't see it, but most people dare not take the risk. It's just risky.

After all, the implementation of the New Deal may make the country stronger, and it may also make the already poor and weak Qin State collapse and even destroy the country. Wei State has coveted them for a long time. If they come here when the new policy has not been implemented and the old policy has not been reformed. What should I do if I attack?

The state of Chu in the south also wants to come here from time to time to take advantage of it. Yiqu and the surrounding grassland tribes in the north are even more difficult. What worries me is that there are no more bamboo baskets.

They are not afraid of suffering or poverty, but they are afraid that they will not be able to hold on to the last land, and they will eventually become subjugated people.

There are good and bad sides to things. Obviously, there are more pessimistic people in the court of the Qin Dynasty. They haven't changed for hundreds of years. Who can bear a sudden big change that hurts the muscles and bones.

This is what Jing Jian was worried about. Seeing that Wei Ji was still smiling, he didn't seem to realize how critical the situation was, so he took a sip of his drink and continued to worry.

Sun Boling is not sensitive to spirits. He prefers mild and soft Central Plains wines. Weijiu and Songjiu are very good, and the aroma of the wine can feel the wind of a gentleman blowing towards his face.

When he was in Weiguo before, he thought that Jing Jian was a simple general with well-developed limbs and a simple mind. After all, the first time he met his teacher, he could directly hug his thigh and make people follow him. This kind of thing is not something ordinary people can do. After reading more, I realized that although this person is indeed stupid most of the time, there are still a small number of people who are wise and stupid.

Seeing that Young Master Qian is happy with the drink and wishing to go to heaven, you know that this is the real person who doesn't care about anything else except fighting. It is already a great skill to be able to fight in Qin. Everything works.

As long as Young Master Qian firmly stands on Duke Qin's side, other people will riot if they make trouble. As long as there is no civil uprising, the private soldiers of the old Qin clan will not be able to charge forward to die knowing that they can't fight.

The authorities are obsessed, so grown-ups don't see it as thoroughly as Young Master Ji, a child who doesn't care about political affairs. Sure enough, talent is still very important, but I don't know when their teacher will get his wish.

By the way, what about the teacher?

The baby-faced young man in the wheelchair leaned on the back of the chair, and finally realized that something was wrong. He remembered that the teacher was still here just now, but why the time disappeared after a while, "Everyone, have you ever noticed where the teacher went?"

Young Master Qian hugged the wine jar, his eyes were clear and not a bit drunk, "I came in with the old man, it should be here, I can't be caught by the gods, right?"

Wei Ji recalled the scene after Mr. Wang Xu came in, and his brows twitched when he heard Young Master Qian mention the word "immortal". He remembered their silly little guard and asked, "Where's Xiao Jia?"

Not only did the old man disappear, but their little guard also disappeared. Wei Ji searched around and found that not only Xiao A, but also Xiao B disappeared.

Xiao A often runs out to play, and it doesn’t matter if he loses it. Anyway, he can run back by himself, but Xiao B will never leave too far if he has nothing to do. That kid can find various jobs for himself at home, from morning till night He refused to stop for a moment, and now that the two of them disappeared together, there must be something wrong.

Apart from reading and playing chess, the old man usually wonders where there is delicious food. Recently, he has added a hobby. When he is free, he will come to ask him if he wants to learn from him.

Did they run out to play together?

Not so much.

"Sir, haven't we got any fresh food recently?" Wei Ji asked hesitantly. He never kept leftovers here, and he always cooked and eaten them. Besides, he didn't have to sneak around when he wanted to eat. ah.

Sun Boling squeezed his chin, and after a while he looked at Young Master Qian and asked, "Eldest Young Master, is there anyone watching your young masters today?"

The teacher is going to teach the little boys every few days now, those little guys are very noisy, they don't know what they are pretending to be in their little heads, even he is often teased.

If the young masters come over, the teacher will definitely think of ways to toss people with them.

Young Master Qian was a little puzzled, pulled his hair and asked suspiciously, "Those boys should study at home right now. Mr. Guigu will teach them one day every ten days, and they can't be idle at other times."

"Eldest son, the master who lectures the young masters is Gongsun Jia, who just left here." Master Sun shook his head, and probably guessed what was going on, "The teacher mentioned a few days ago that your family There are a lot of good things planted in the garden, and one of them has just matured recently, if there is no accident, everyone is probably next door."

As soon as the voice fell, there were a few exclamations from the yard next door. Several people looked over there in unison. Over the wall, a wisp of black smoke was rising up. If the momentum of the smoke was allowed to spread, they would wait You can go out and shout "It's water——".

The case was solved, and everyone was next door.

Young Master Qian gritted his teeth, threw the wine jar on the table, found a stick, and went there to teach the child a lesson. He promised to read and write at home, but he slipped out after a while, thinking that his words were useless, right?

However, before he could go out, the milk doll, whose face was like a little gray cat, ran over with his short legs. The little guy didn't notice the danger, so he shouted happily while running.

"Brother Ji—Si'er brought you delicious food—"

"The uncle's house collected a lot of big eggs yesterday, Si'er kept a lot, and no one gave them to brother Ji."

Young Master Qian: ...

Brat, who cares about your little things?

It's also big... that's called sweet potato!

The young master gave a sharp cry, rolled up his sleeves and was about to bring him over, but he suddenly realized an important problem after only taking two steps.

its not right!

Brat, do you need to come here to deliver the things from Lao Tzu's house? !