Playing intrigue is worse than engaging in infrastructure

Da Lantai should know this result after thinking about it.

After all, he has been with Song Qingyuan for a long time, and he didn't see that Song Qingyuan had other meanings, but it was their king...

His words and deeds are all weird, and before that, Wu Qina was specially asked to come over to warn him not to allow him to deliver things to His Highness every now and then.

But Da Lantai only dared to whisper a few words behind his back, which really made him question Lian Ti in person...

He absolutely dare not.

Seeing that he was silent all the time, Song Qingyuan asked, "Is there something wrong with this pattern?"

"Just..." Da Lantai couldn't help thinking of the look in his eyes when he met Lian Ti in the meeting hall the day after he was threatened.

The words that had come to his lips immediately turned a corner.

"It's nothing, it's just... pretty pretty."

Song Qingyuan instinctively realized something was wrong, but because he didn't have the habit of forcing people to answer questions, he agreed casually.

Just the second after sending Dalantai away, he called Mobei's servant in his palace.

"Do you know what the totem patterns on the eaves outside the palace mean?" Song Qingyuan asked casually.

The servant thought about it carefully, then shook his head very blankly.

The servants in Song Qingyuan Palace were all specially selected by Lian Ti, who spoke Chinese well, to facilitate their communication.

Generally, such people either have Han relatives in their families, or they grew up in places close to the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

In short, I am not particularly familiar with this totem culture with Mobei characteristics.

Song Qingyuan also realized that he had asked the wrong person, so he sent away the bewildered servant.

It wasn't a very important matter at first, Song Qingyuan couldn't ask the answer from the servant here, so he put this matter behind him, only thinking about asking when he meets someone who understands this in the future That's fine.

Just when others thought that the answer to this question would have to wait until when, they never thought that after only one night, Song Qingyuan met the craftsmen who repaired the palace.

The origin of the matter still starts from the day he left the royal court.

Daju, who was repeatedly referred to as a cat in the Southern Zhou paddock, is already a juvenile lion.

Although the nose is still pink and tender, which means that he is not yet a full-grown adult, but just by looking at his body shape, he can already scare people. If he pulls it out, he may scare many people.

As for why Daju doesn't have this kind of trouble now, it's entirely because in the past two years, the people in Mobei know that Song Qingyuan has a very majestic lion. Hurt.

The people who went to work outside the city sometimes even saw Song Qingyuan playing with him in the fields outside the city.

But that's where the problem lies.

Although Daju has a good sense of humanity, he is only close to Song Qingyuan. He usually just sends his servants to take care of him, but if he doesn't see Song Qingyuan for more than a few days, he will make a fuss.

And Song Qingyuan went to the Qige tribe to deal with Gerile's rebellion some time ago, and it took him ten days to leave.

The last time Song Qingyuan went to the Wolf God Snow Mountain, and Jiang Duo took Daju to the valley to play with him for half a day from time to time, but this time he hadn't seen Song Qingyuan for ten days.

Therefore, after Song Qingyuan was free and sent someone to fetch Daju, he would jump up and down in front of the court and make a fuss.

If it was a big tangerine when I was a child, it doesn't matter if it is all over the yard, at most it will knock over a few pots of flowers and plants.

But now he is already a big kid weighing nearly two hundred catties.

After such a fuss, a large piece of paint was knocked off a colonnade on the corridor.

However, this pillar is the most conspicuous one, as long as one enters the Song Qingyuan Palace, one can see that it is missing a piece as soon as one looks up.

Song Qingyuan slapped Daju a few times half angry and half funny, and asked Jiang Duo to let the artisans who repaired the palace come over to deal with it.

The craftsmen arrived very quickly, so it wasn't a big problem at all. Song Qingyuan asked them to fix it directly, and didn't go through the procedure of moving to another courtyard.

Watching the pillars damaged by Daju gradually recover, Song Qingyuan squeezed Daju's ears, and asked the craftsman who was packing up tools, "When you renovated this palace, were you the ones who did it?"

The craftsman thought that Song Qingyuan was dissatisfied with some place, so he stiffened all of a sudden, "Return to Your Highness, the villain is in charge."

"Oh." Song Qingyuan nodded with a deep expression.

Seeing that the person in front of him didn't mean to blame himself, the craftsman couldn't help but boldly asked: "But what's the problem?"

"It's nothing serious." Song Qingyuan paused, "I'm just a little curious about the meaning of the pattern on the wall."

Hearing this, the craftsman immediately replied: "Your Highness may not be very clear, the pattern on the eaves wall is a kind of totem in Mobei, which symbolizes a kind of loyal bird."

One of the advantages of these people is that they answer whatever the master asks, and they don't think too much about the deep meaning behind it.

For example, now, he didn't have any questions like "why did this pattern appear in the palace where Song Qingyuan lived?".

Hearing this, Song Qingyuan paused with his fingers along Daju's back and forehead, "Then will there be such patterns in other temples?"

In fact, he already vaguely had the answer in his heart, but he still had the last guess: what if it was Mobei's characteristic?

For example, they like birds that symbolize loyalty.

"Of course not." The craftsman replied without thinking, "Only our queen is qualified to use such patterns."

Good job, even mentioning, carrying private goods, right?

Song Qingyuan's face remained unchanged, but he had already conceived thousands of ways to usurp power and position in his mind.

What was even mentioned at the time...

If he seized his throne, would he move to the place where he lives now?

Go dreaming!He would just throw Lianti to feed Daju.

Xu Shi finally felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, and the craftsman added hesitantly: "That...sometimes the Queen Mother also uses this kind of totem."

What is the name of the queen mother in the Central Plains...

It should be the queen mother, right?The craftsman secretly wiped the sweat from his temples.

"Okay, you go down."

Song Qingyuan didn't care to correct the problem of the craftsman's title, waved his hand, and asked Jiang Duo to reward them with some belongings and send them away.

After reviewing what happened, he probably understood what was going on.

In the beginning, after Lian Ti inherited the throne, he refused to renovate the palace, so the minister repaired the palace not far from Lian Ti's bedroom in the name of the new king who had not yet married, and used it when he got married.

That's why there are these messy patterned totems.

As for why Song Qingyuan lives in this palace now...

It is estimated that only Lian Ti, who is thousands of miles away, knows this question.Anyway, Song Qingyuan didn't think it was just because the palace was the most luxurious.

No wonder Dalantai had such a weird expression when he asked this question yesterday, and he probably saw the meaning behind these totems.

At that time, he thought it was a means of recruiting himself, but he never thought that there was such a meaning.

Because of this incident, Song Qingyuan received the time report from the front line two days later, and even had no desire to take it apart.

The orderly soldiers were a little at a loss.

Could it be that His Highness thinks that their king's speed of conquering Tongzhou is too slow?

It shouldn't be, Tongzhou's terrain is the most easy to defend and difficult to attack. It only took them half a month, which is already considered lightning fast.

The messenger secretly looked at Song Qingyuan's expression, feeling a little dazed.

"Go down and rest first, you have worked hard during this time." Song Qingyuan praised a few words as usual.

Lian Ti has never been faulty in wars, and this time with a steady stream of luggage and sufficient supplies of food and grass, this battle is really not difficult.

What worries Lian Ti the most is to restrain his subordinates so as not to harm the common people in the city.

After Song Qingyuan received several success reports in a row, he completely stopped worrying about it.

Now it's just a Tongzhou, something in the plan.Song Qingyuan might be a little surprised when Lian mentioned that he hit Huijing.

But this possibility should be very small, just yesterday, Song Qingyuan just received the news from He Liantai.

A long letter probably only has two effective messages:

[-]. Emperor Hongde passed away.

Second, he sat on the throne with the support of Zhou Wendao.

It should not be long before Helian Tai will be able to stabilize the situation in the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, it is estimated that he will take the initiative to negotiate a peace with Mobei.

After all, after nearly half a year of fighting, both the Southern Zhou Dynasty and Mobei are exhausted.

The food and grass of hundreds of thousands of troops is not a small amount. If the fight continues, even Song Qingyuan will empty out most of his family.

But this time, the peace negotiation will not be as simple as it was when the Southern Zhou Dynasty was defeated and the three cities of Qin, Bing, and Mao were defeated.

The plan Lian mentioned at that time was to return these three cities to Southern Zhou, in exchange for the other party to add a few more trading points on the border.

The reason for making such a decision to return the hard-earned city to the Southern Zhou Dynasty is also due to various considerations.

The main reason is that those three cities are not really rich places, even if they are included in the territory of Mobei, they will not bring much value.

The second is to consider the difference in living habits between them and the people of Mobei, plus there is a Gobi in the middle, it is difficult for the people of these three cities to integrate into Mobei.

At that time, the interior of Mobei was not peaceful. Instead of increasing the management difficulty for nothing, it would be better to return it to Nan Zhou in exchange for some real benefits.

But this time, Song Qingyuan and Lian Ti did not intend to return the occupied land to Nan Zhou.

The current Mobei no longer needs to rely on the forcibly opened mutual market to exchange for the resources they need, and there are vast fertile soil in Tongzhou and Quzhou, which can just make up for their lack of self-sufficiency in food.

As for the vast wilderness between the two places, it was not a big problem in Song Qingyuan's eyes.

If the transportation is inconvenient, roads will be built, and after the official roads are completed, towns will be developed along the way. In just three years, he will be able to make these places completely belong to Mobei.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, they should be able to complete the peace negotiation process with Nan Zhou.

In this way, the autumn harvest of the common people will not be delayed.

If the official road leading to Dingyuan can be repaired before the heavy snow closes the mountain this winter, they can still complete a large number of transactions with the common people.

Exchange goods such as beef and mutton, salt, and woolen cloth for their surplus food, and each other can have a prosperous New Year.

"Bring me the map of Mount Fu." Song Qingyuan ordered Jiang Duo.

Since negotiating peace with Nanzhou is already a certainty, it is better to start planning the official road connecting the two places from now on.

In this way, after they sign the covenant with Nan Zhou, they can start construction immediately.

The author says:

Thinking about it carefully, Wu Qina is the man who knows the most...

As early as when Xiao Song was still wondering whether he was trying to win people's hearts by repeatedly mentioning it so that he could devote himself to Mobei, Wu Qi had already emphasized to Xiao Song that "their king has never had a concubine or concubine".