In the rustling grass, Gongsun's family's ox cart was parked. The body of the car was made of paulownia wood and painted with a huge black canopy, which was even more gorgeous than A Sheng's ox cart.There are servants and maidservants standing behind the car, and it can be seen at a glance that the family is traveling.The Gongsun family's reputation is not as good as the big families in the Central Plains, but they must be comparable in ostentation.
Two women in Chinese clothes stood in front of the car, looking towards the city wall of Zhaojiazhuang.
Finally, a brown steed ran out from the city gate, and immediately there was an adult leading a child.
"An Lang——" Da Ba Niang took two steps forward, but she had to stop because of her cloak stumbling, and she shouted "An Lang" with twists and turns.
Da'an was dismounted by A Shi, and gave a standard gentleman's salute to the two aunts: "Hello, aunt."
Da Ba Niang said with tears in her eyes, "Okay, okay. I've grown taller and become more sensible. I heard that you were injured, and my aunt couldn't sleep well all night." He took off his fur cap, and the moment he saw the bandage, tears rolled down his face: "I hurt my head, how can this be good? How can this be good?"
"Auntie, I'm fine." Da'an was blown cold by the wind, and tried to grab the hat, but failed.
"I hurt my head when I was young, I can imagine how difficult it was for you in Cao's house." Da Ba Niang hugged Da'an tightly, "There is no one else here, tell aunt, how did you get hurt?"
"It's just that I was not careful..."
"Lies! The maid is watching, the wet nurse is watching, how can you be careless? If you are not careful, you are also careless, my poor An Lang—"
Da'an didn't want to explain to his aunt that he didn't have a nurse by his side, otherwise she would have to think too much.I heard that some children from aristocratic families still drink milk at the age of six or seven, which is simply unreasonable.So he had no choice but to whisper: "I robbed Sister Cao Zhen's pony, so she pushed me. It was my fault. Both the eldest son and the second son gave compensation, and the pony returned to me. Aunt, stop talking."
Ba Niang was still crying: "I heard that Cao Ang had three good horses for him to learn riding and archery when he was five years old. Now An Lang is also five years old, but he broke his head for a horse and a man..."
"Sister, you have surpassed." Jiu Niang, who was watching the wind, shouted sharply, "Cao Ang is the eldest son of the Cao family and the eldest grandson of Da Si Nong."
"But Anlang is the only blood of the Dashi. Although the Dashi has lost, it is not Anlang's turn to spoil it..." Ba Niang cried more and more miserably, tears hanging on the pink lying silkworm, peach blossoms with rain generally.
Jiu Niang pulled her sister up and almost threw Da'an in Ba Niang's arms to the ground: "You are trying to kill us! Before the defeat of the Da family, how could the landowners occupying a county be compared with the noble family of Gongqing?" I beg you, shut up and don’t spoil Anlang." She turned her head and stared at Ta'an seriously: "Your eighth aunt has lived a good life for a few years and is becoming more and more confused. Know yourself."
Da'an was flustered by her look, nodded quickly, and repeated the words he had recited countless times: "I know. You have to listen to the second son. The matter of your father's generation is over, and I want to grow up in peace."
Jiu Niang breathed a sigh of relief, and then frowned again: "If you keep this in mind, you shouldn't provoke Cao Zhen. She is Cao Mengde's eldest daughter and Cao Ang's elder sister, and the weight in the future is not yours." Comparable."
Ta'an bowed his head: "Yes. Anlang was wrong."
He really felt that the two aunts were more difficult to serve than the Cao family. The Cao family only asked him to be innocent and innocent, but the aunts asked for more, neither left nor right.
Every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite.When Da'an felt that he was going to worry about his aunt at a young age, Ah Sheng also felt that it was a bitch for her to fall on her niece at such an age.
Dalian Racecourse is another scarce resource provided by Youzhou to the Cao family besides the lime mine.You can't raise good horses in the non-north, and you can't raise famous cavalry in the non-north.Ah Sheng actually doesn't know much about the cavalry, a unit that has been eliminated by history. She can still have a little knowledge when it comes to jeeps or tanks, but when it comes to how to raise horses, she has learned slowly in her life, which is far inferior to Governor Bing. Great Cao Cao.
"Maybe it really has something to do with the soil and water. They also raise horses with soybeans, wheat and eggs. The horses from Shuofeng are really stronger than the ones from Qiao County." Twenty-seven stood in the tent with a disheveled face but a smile on his face. report here.
It wasn't easy for him either. He moved from South Island and Liudao to Liaodong, fighting on the front line of land reclamation forever.If he could stay on the southern islands, he would definitely be a legendary figure who combines the white strips of the waves and the mountain demons in one, but he had to come to the north. He started to learn how to raise horses, and he stumbled to form the first one under her name for A Sheng. A cavalry.
The origin of the cavalry is also unprecedentedly diverse: orphans who have just graduated from Qingzhou, Jingzhuang from the South Island, new immigrants from Youzhou, and some young cavalry who have settled down.
Ah Sheng was wearing a down-filled winter coat. Because the color was a slightly purplish dark blue, it didn't look bloated, but it made her lips red and teeth white. "Sit." She raised her hand to signal Twenty Seven to sit down, and poured him a cup of hot milk tea, "I've lived in the racecourse for half a month, and you've done a good job."
Nian Qi rubbed his nose, picked up the pottery bowl and drank it in one gulp: "It's because I came back late and didn't receive the master in time."
"Training and patrolling are the real business. After all, we are in the frontier, not like the Central Plains."
Nianqi seemed to laugh, and his rough voice like iron and stone softened a little: "After all these years, the master really hasn't changed at all."
"Cough." Ah Sheng coughed in disguise. "So, how about the north? In the south of Liaoning, except for the occasional few Korean merchants and Wuhuan merchants, we have never seen barbarians. The northeastern part of Liaodong is adjacent to Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Goguryeo, as well as Fuyu, Woju, and Yeji. But what I know is out of date, the various ethnic groups in the north merged with each other, and the situation is changing rapidly, it is better for you to go there yourself to get an intuitive view."
Nianqi's face was serious, and the two scars on his cheeks became more and more ferocious: "The border invaders include Xianbei and Goguryeo.
"Wuhuan and Xianbei have the same origin, and their languages and customs are similar. However, Wuhuan is attached to it, and it is led by the Great Han Huan Xiaowei. After that, he occupied the grassland and annexed the rest of the Xiongnu, which became more and more troublesome. Beizhi encountered small groups of Xianbei many times outside Liaodong County, or eight or nine people, or more than ten people, and dared to attack and kill villages, extremely arrogant." When he said here , the indignation could not be concealed in his tone.
A Sheng picked up a pen and marked "Mongolia Grassland" and "Small Unit Looting" after the word "Xianbei", and marked "Neifu" after the word "Wuhuan".
"Xianbei invades the border every year, is it the same this year?"
Twenty-seven took a deep breath: "Large-scale raids on border areas always occur in December, and I think they won't fall this year. But they are rare here in Liaodong, and most of them go to Yuyang and Bingzhou. Let's go far away." Water cannot put out a near fire."
Just as he was talking, Wen Chuan, the little maid, came running in with small steps, rubbing against A Sheng's back, and didn't speak.
"What?" Twenty Seven asked first.
Wen Chuan didn't dare to look directly at the man full of evil spirits, so he only whispered: "The girl is here again, she is kneeling outside, pleading guilty in one...one-clothes."
The sound insulation of tents is not as good as that of brick walls, and the whistling wind outside can be clearly heard.The candle "cracked" and made Wen Chuan tremble all over.
After about half a minute, Ah Sheng showed a slight smile: "I didn't yell, it's still a bit arrogant, so let's go on—let's continue, what's going on with Goguryeo Kouban?"
Twenty-seven didn't hesitate much.His master is only Cao Sheng, and even Cao Cao has nothing to do with him, let alone Cao Cao's daughter. "Goguryeo and Fuyu came from the same place, and Goguryeo is the most powerful. If the king of Goguryeo is unreasonable, he will lead the Koreans and Juwo to invade the border county and kill the prefect. Even the county town cannot stop it. But Fuyu and Goguryeo have old enemies. After many years of conquering each other, such a large-scale invasion is not common."
Goguryeo, occupying the Greater Khingan Mountains, has no rigid need to go south compared to Xianbei, who is not full on the grassland.But from time to time, he would have a convulsion to compete with the big man for the hegemony of the Northeast.
Buyeo, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
To summarize in more succinct words:
For the entire Han Dynasty, the primary conflict is Xiqiang.
For the entire Youzhou, the primary conflict is Xianbei.
For Liaodong, the primary contradiction is Goguryeo.
"In this way, we still have to go to Goguryeo." Ah Sheng wrote a note and passed it to the spy staff on duty.Next, there will naturally be nails inserted into the caravans heading to the border Sigma.In her previous life, she wouldn't feel at ease if she couldn't see the implementation of the work with her own eyes, but now, she seems to have gotten used to relying on reports for decision-making.
"Brother wants to transfer the young cavalry back. This winter's hunting will depend on your new cavalry to support the Cao family. By the way, go and see the Gongsun family's trilogy."
"promise."
"When the hunting is over, go to Xigaima to practice with Goguryeo people. You can dress up as Xianbei people."
"No." Isn't it just making trouble, he is best at it.
Twenty Seven received the order and went out, leaving Ah Sheng with Cao Zhen who was still kneeling in the cold wind.
Ah Sheng rubbed his temples, she now felt that the candlelight was too hot, so she simply put on a cloak and walked out of the tent with a stove in her arms.
The sky seems to be suppressed very low, even the sun can hardly dispel this vast oppression.Miss Cao was kneeling in the grass in front of the tent, with a withered yellow dogtail grass standing beside her.Ah Sheng bent down and touched his niece's little hand, it was cold.
"Why do you want to ruin your own body? It hurts the son's body, and the pain lies in the parents. This is not the way for the family to admit their mistakes."
The little girl's eyes turned red: "Ah Zhen is not precious at all. Without the love of my second uncle and father, Ah Zhen is just a concubine."
"Other people's love is like a flower in a mirror, only your own is your own."
"But as the eldest daughter of the Cao family, I will marry after all. If my mother's family is stronger than my husband's family, I will rely on my father's favor; if my husband's family is stronger than my husband's family, I will rely on my husband's favor. Is there anything wrong?"
"Why do others favor you? Are you good-looking, or are you good at flattery? Or are you good at dealing with people, or are virtuous, or have skills? People will always appreciate people who have real abilities. This husband does not appreciate you. Come on, let's just change one. Don't you often claim to be the eldest daughter of the Cao family? I can still allow you to remarry."
Cao Zhen lowered her head and sniffled. "I know I was wrong. When An Lang comes back, I will make amends to him. Second uncle, don't miss me."
A Sheng handed her the hand stove: "You child, you always feel inferior where you shouldn't be, and proud where you shouldn't be."
"Second Uncle..." Cao Zhen was picked up by her own maid, wrapped in a coat, and still a little unsteady, "What do you mean?"
"It's despicable to be flattering to your superiors and arrogant to your subordinates. If you are twice as cautious towards Ta'an as you are now, and as proud as you were then to me, that will make people look up to you."
"Is Second Uncle kidding me?"
A Sheng stroked Cao Zhen's hair: "Restrain your nature, so people look up to you, what's wrong? You are also 11 years old, think about these reasons."
Winter snow falls, white flowers everywhere.
Youzhou has entered the most difficult winter.Cold is not the biggest enemy. The rapid popularization of kang technology among the people has made the freezing death rate in Liaodong Peninsula lower every year.Hunger is not the biggest enemy, this year is a big year, and no matter whether it is the Cao family in the south of Liaoning or the Gongsun family in the north of the county, the rent they receive will not make people unable to live.
The real big trouble comes from Kou Bian, an ethnic minority.The harsh natural environment has resulted in a brutal competition for survival in the Northland.In spring, summer and autumn, everyone produces independently; in winter, they plunder each other.
In this kind of environment, happy Maodong does not exist.
The villagers were busy strengthening the fortifications, the cavalry were busy being scouts and robbing others, the servants were busy training and practicing, even A Sheng and Cao Cao's children had to ride horses and bows to the hunting grounds.Whether the prey can be hunted or not is second, horseback riding and archery is still the most important social activity among the Liaodong nobles.
At least, it is the most important communication between the Cao family and Gongsun Du.
Gongsun Du is in his 30s this year, slightly older than Cao Cao and Cao Sheng. He also looks masculine in line with contemporary aesthetics, but there is a bit of depression in his eyebrows and eyes, which shows his dissatisfaction.
"Srustling." A slight sound came from the half-withered bushes.Ah Sheng frowned, his body had spontaneously set up his bow and shot an arrow. With a sound of "噗嗤", there was no sound among the grass blades.Two boy servants of the Cao family happily ran over and picked up a silly roe deer with brown fur.Arrows pierced the eyes.
Gongsun Du looked A Sheng up and down with somewhat surprised eyes: "Zhonghua looks weak, but his arrow skills are accurate." Archery is a labor of strength, and you can't draw the bow without a certain amount of arm strength, let alone accurate head.
Cao Cao is riding on a good black horse with a high bridge saddle, stepping on the stirrups, and is honored.
Ah Sheng couldn't accept this compliment so brazenly, he had to be humble. "I made Shengji laugh. If it was any farther away, I, a weakling, would be beyond my strength." After she finished speaking, she patted her horse forward and led her into the woods, where she shot another unlucky one within half an hour. rabbit and a hapless pheasant.After shooting three arrows, she has reached her limit.Shooting the fourth arrow will inevitably cause muscle strain.
"Brother, Sheng Ji." She turned her head to find Cao Cao and Gongsun Du, "I will stop here, and entrust the glory of punching bears and kicking wolves to the two of you."
The two young men laughed loudly: "Go to the camp and wait for our good news." Cao Cao also greeted his eldest son: "Aang, do you want to go back with your second uncle?"
Cao Ang rode a half-sized horse, held a half-sized bow, and tied a half-sized sword. His little face was flushed from the cold and he insisted: "I want to guard my father."
"Your son is not bad, he looks like a man." Gongsun Du boasted, but a glint of gloom flashed in his eyes, "The one in my family has been bullied to the head..."
Cao Cao is also a Liaodong master now, and he knows what's going on as soon as he hears it.Gongsunzhao and Gongsundu of the Gongsun family had always been at odds, so they deliberately humiliated Gongsundu's eldest son, saying that he would appoint the newly grown child as the corps leader.
What is a corporal?In the army, the person in charge of the five soldiers is called the corps leader, which is worse than the most basic squad leader in later generations.It is not so much an officer as a leader with a title.The son of the Gongsun family, the eldest son of the former governor of Jizhou, served as a leading soldier in his hometown in Youzhou, and if he said it, he would be laughed to death.
But Gongsun Zhao is the magistrate of Xiangping County, who has the power to appoint and dismiss grassroots troops.What can Gongsun Kang do as a young man, he can only refuse the call because he is sick.It's a joke, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is not a call at all, but someone wants to humiliate Gongsun Du's lineage.
A trace of sarcasm appeared at the corner of Gongsun Du's mouth: "After all, I lost my job as an old man and couldn't stand up for my children. If I'm still the governor of a state, let's see who else dares to make mistakes in Liaodong."
Cao Cao heard the sound of the strings and knew the elegant meaning: "Shengji is not an outsider, so I will tell you the truth. It is not a good time to seek an official in the same way as Shi Changshi. The eunuchs are in chaos, the people are full of grievances, and there are many bad omens in Kyushu. At this time, join the eunuch It is not good for reputation; in addition, their demands are getting more and more excessive, and the emperor sells another official. Even if you spend tens of millions of dollars, you may not be able to buy a governor. Otherwise, how could I, the son of Cao Cao Jiuqing, be under the command of less than [-] people? What about waiting for the county magistrate?"
Having said this, in addition to rejecting Gongsun Du's application for an official position, it also created an atmosphere of being the same as the fallen people in the world.But Gongsundu didn't like this, and immediately turned his mouth: "Meng De was joking. Which low-level county magistrate can appease tens of thousands of refugees; which low-level county magistrate led troops out of the customs to search Xianbei; Can you go back to Luoyang to report on your duties as the county magistrate? I think you are a hero..."
"According to Cao's meaning, it is better for Shengji and Cao to go to General He together." Cao Cao quickly activated Plan B, looking at Gongsun Du with a pair of black eyes sincerely, and almost pulled his hands to cry, "General Born in a humble background, why is the empress able to occupy a high position, so she is especially eager to seek talent regardless of her background. Now that the General’s Mansion is newly built, there is a lack of ministers everywhere, you and I go to the General, isn’t it better than bribing eunuchs to get ahead?”
Gongsun Du burst into tears: "If you get rich, you will never forget Meng De's kindness."
The two clapped their hands together as an alliance: "After the second day of the first lunar month, we will set off for the west."
Both are movie stars.
Two women in Chinese clothes stood in front of the car, looking towards the city wall of Zhaojiazhuang.
Finally, a brown steed ran out from the city gate, and immediately there was an adult leading a child.
"An Lang——" Da Ba Niang took two steps forward, but she had to stop because of her cloak stumbling, and she shouted "An Lang" with twists and turns.
Da'an was dismounted by A Shi, and gave a standard gentleman's salute to the two aunts: "Hello, aunt."
Da Ba Niang said with tears in her eyes, "Okay, okay. I've grown taller and become more sensible. I heard that you were injured, and my aunt couldn't sleep well all night." He took off his fur cap, and the moment he saw the bandage, tears rolled down his face: "I hurt my head, how can this be good? How can this be good?"
"Auntie, I'm fine." Da'an was blown cold by the wind, and tried to grab the hat, but failed.
"I hurt my head when I was young, I can imagine how difficult it was for you in Cao's house." Da Ba Niang hugged Da'an tightly, "There is no one else here, tell aunt, how did you get hurt?"
"It's just that I was not careful..."
"Lies! The maid is watching, the wet nurse is watching, how can you be careless? If you are not careful, you are also careless, my poor An Lang—"
Da'an didn't want to explain to his aunt that he didn't have a nurse by his side, otherwise she would have to think too much.I heard that some children from aristocratic families still drink milk at the age of six or seven, which is simply unreasonable.So he had no choice but to whisper: "I robbed Sister Cao Zhen's pony, so she pushed me. It was my fault. Both the eldest son and the second son gave compensation, and the pony returned to me. Aunt, stop talking."
Ba Niang was still crying: "I heard that Cao Ang had three good horses for him to learn riding and archery when he was five years old. Now An Lang is also five years old, but he broke his head for a horse and a man..."
"Sister, you have surpassed." Jiu Niang, who was watching the wind, shouted sharply, "Cao Ang is the eldest son of the Cao family and the eldest grandson of Da Si Nong."
"But Anlang is the only blood of the Dashi. Although the Dashi has lost, it is not Anlang's turn to spoil it..." Ba Niang cried more and more miserably, tears hanging on the pink lying silkworm, peach blossoms with rain generally.
Jiu Niang pulled her sister up and almost threw Da'an in Ba Niang's arms to the ground: "You are trying to kill us! Before the defeat of the Da family, how could the landowners occupying a county be compared with the noble family of Gongqing?" I beg you, shut up and don’t spoil Anlang." She turned her head and stared at Ta'an seriously: "Your eighth aunt has lived a good life for a few years and is becoming more and more confused. Know yourself."
Da'an was flustered by her look, nodded quickly, and repeated the words he had recited countless times: "I know. You have to listen to the second son. The matter of your father's generation is over, and I want to grow up in peace."
Jiu Niang breathed a sigh of relief, and then frowned again: "If you keep this in mind, you shouldn't provoke Cao Zhen. She is Cao Mengde's eldest daughter and Cao Ang's elder sister, and the weight in the future is not yours." Comparable."
Ta'an bowed his head: "Yes. Anlang was wrong."
He really felt that the two aunts were more difficult to serve than the Cao family. The Cao family only asked him to be innocent and innocent, but the aunts asked for more, neither left nor right.
Every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite.When Da'an felt that he was going to worry about his aunt at a young age, Ah Sheng also felt that it was a bitch for her to fall on her niece at such an age.
Dalian Racecourse is another scarce resource provided by Youzhou to the Cao family besides the lime mine.You can't raise good horses in the non-north, and you can't raise famous cavalry in the non-north.Ah Sheng actually doesn't know much about the cavalry, a unit that has been eliminated by history. She can still have a little knowledge when it comes to jeeps or tanks, but when it comes to how to raise horses, she has learned slowly in her life, which is far inferior to Governor Bing. Great Cao Cao.
"Maybe it really has something to do with the soil and water. They also raise horses with soybeans, wheat and eggs. The horses from Shuofeng are really stronger than the ones from Qiao County." Twenty-seven stood in the tent with a disheveled face but a smile on his face. report here.
It wasn't easy for him either. He moved from South Island and Liudao to Liaodong, fighting on the front line of land reclamation forever.If he could stay on the southern islands, he would definitely be a legendary figure who combines the white strips of the waves and the mountain demons in one, but he had to come to the north. He started to learn how to raise horses, and he stumbled to form the first one under her name for A Sheng. A cavalry.
The origin of the cavalry is also unprecedentedly diverse: orphans who have just graduated from Qingzhou, Jingzhuang from the South Island, new immigrants from Youzhou, and some young cavalry who have settled down.
Ah Sheng was wearing a down-filled winter coat. Because the color was a slightly purplish dark blue, it didn't look bloated, but it made her lips red and teeth white. "Sit." She raised her hand to signal Twenty Seven to sit down, and poured him a cup of hot milk tea, "I've lived in the racecourse for half a month, and you've done a good job."
Nian Qi rubbed his nose, picked up the pottery bowl and drank it in one gulp: "It's because I came back late and didn't receive the master in time."
"Training and patrolling are the real business. After all, we are in the frontier, not like the Central Plains."
Nianqi seemed to laugh, and his rough voice like iron and stone softened a little: "After all these years, the master really hasn't changed at all."
"Cough." Ah Sheng coughed in disguise. "So, how about the north? In the south of Liaoning, except for the occasional few Korean merchants and Wuhuan merchants, we have never seen barbarians. The northeastern part of Liaodong is adjacent to Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Goguryeo, as well as Fuyu, Woju, and Yeji. But what I know is out of date, the various ethnic groups in the north merged with each other, and the situation is changing rapidly, it is better for you to go there yourself to get an intuitive view."
Nianqi's face was serious, and the two scars on his cheeks became more and more ferocious: "The border invaders include Xianbei and Goguryeo.
"Wuhuan and Xianbei have the same origin, and their languages and customs are similar. However, Wuhuan is attached to it, and it is led by the Great Han Huan Xiaowei. After that, he occupied the grassland and annexed the rest of the Xiongnu, which became more and more troublesome. Beizhi encountered small groups of Xianbei many times outside Liaodong County, or eight or nine people, or more than ten people, and dared to attack and kill villages, extremely arrogant." When he said here , the indignation could not be concealed in his tone.
A Sheng picked up a pen and marked "Mongolia Grassland" and "Small Unit Looting" after the word "Xianbei", and marked "Neifu" after the word "Wuhuan".
"Xianbei invades the border every year, is it the same this year?"
Twenty-seven took a deep breath: "Large-scale raids on border areas always occur in December, and I think they won't fall this year. But they are rare here in Liaodong, and most of them go to Yuyang and Bingzhou. Let's go far away." Water cannot put out a near fire."
Just as he was talking, Wen Chuan, the little maid, came running in with small steps, rubbing against A Sheng's back, and didn't speak.
"What?" Twenty Seven asked first.
Wen Chuan didn't dare to look directly at the man full of evil spirits, so he only whispered: "The girl is here again, she is kneeling outside, pleading guilty in one...one-clothes."
The sound insulation of tents is not as good as that of brick walls, and the whistling wind outside can be clearly heard.The candle "cracked" and made Wen Chuan tremble all over.
After about half a minute, Ah Sheng showed a slight smile: "I didn't yell, it's still a bit arrogant, so let's go on—let's continue, what's going on with Goguryeo Kouban?"
Twenty-seven didn't hesitate much.His master is only Cao Sheng, and even Cao Cao has nothing to do with him, let alone Cao Cao's daughter. "Goguryeo and Fuyu came from the same place, and Goguryeo is the most powerful. If the king of Goguryeo is unreasonable, he will lead the Koreans and Juwo to invade the border county and kill the prefect. Even the county town cannot stop it. But Fuyu and Goguryeo have old enemies. After many years of conquering each other, such a large-scale invasion is not common."
Goguryeo, occupying the Greater Khingan Mountains, has no rigid need to go south compared to Xianbei, who is not full on the grassland.But from time to time, he would have a convulsion to compete with the big man for the hegemony of the Northeast.
Buyeo, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
To summarize in more succinct words:
For the entire Han Dynasty, the primary conflict is Xiqiang.
For the entire Youzhou, the primary conflict is Xianbei.
For Liaodong, the primary contradiction is Goguryeo.
"In this way, we still have to go to Goguryeo." Ah Sheng wrote a note and passed it to the spy staff on duty.Next, there will naturally be nails inserted into the caravans heading to the border Sigma.In her previous life, she wouldn't feel at ease if she couldn't see the implementation of the work with her own eyes, but now, she seems to have gotten used to relying on reports for decision-making.
"Brother wants to transfer the young cavalry back. This winter's hunting will depend on your new cavalry to support the Cao family. By the way, go and see the Gongsun family's trilogy."
"promise."
"When the hunting is over, go to Xigaima to practice with Goguryeo people. You can dress up as Xianbei people."
"No." Isn't it just making trouble, he is best at it.
Twenty Seven received the order and went out, leaving Ah Sheng with Cao Zhen who was still kneeling in the cold wind.
Ah Sheng rubbed his temples, she now felt that the candlelight was too hot, so she simply put on a cloak and walked out of the tent with a stove in her arms.
The sky seems to be suppressed very low, even the sun can hardly dispel this vast oppression.Miss Cao was kneeling in the grass in front of the tent, with a withered yellow dogtail grass standing beside her.Ah Sheng bent down and touched his niece's little hand, it was cold.
"Why do you want to ruin your own body? It hurts the son's body, and the pain lies in the parents. This is not the way for the family to admit their mistakes."
The little girl's eyes turned red: "Ah Zhen is not precious at all. Without the love of my second uncle and father, Ah Zhen is just a concubine."
"Other people's love is like a flower in a mirror, only your own is your own."
"But as the eldest daughter of the Cao family, I will marry after all. If my mother's family is stronger than my husband's family, I will rely on my father's favor; if my husband's family is stronger than my husband's family, I will rely on my husband's favor. Is there anything wrong?"
"Why do others favor you? Are you good-looking, or are you good at flattery? Or are you good at dealing with people, or are virtuous, or have skills? People will always appreciate people who have real abilities. This husband does not appreciate you. Come on, let's just change one. Don't you often claim to be the eldest daughter of the Cao family? I can still allow you to remarry."
Cao Zhen lowered her head and sniffled. "I know I was wrong. When An Lang comes back, I will make amends to him. Second uncle, don't miss me."
A Sheng handed her the hand stove: "You child, you always feel inferior where you shouldn't be, and proud where you shouldn't be."
"Second Uncle..." Cao Zhen was picked up by her own maid, wrapped in a coat, and still a little unsteady, "What do you mean?"
"It's despicable to be flattering to your superiors and arrogant to your subordinates. If you are twice as cautious towards Ta'an as you are now, and as proud as you were then to me, that will make people look up to you."
"Is Second Uncle kidding me?"
A Sheng stroked Cao Zhen's hair: "Restrain your nature, so people look up to you, what's wrong? You are also 11 years old, think about these reasons."
Winter snow falls, white flowers everywhere.
Youzhou has entered the most difficult winter.Cold is not the biggest enemy. The rapid popularization of kang technology among the people has made the freezing death rate in Liaodong Peninsula lower every year.Hunger is not the biggest enemy, this year is a big year, and no matter whether it is the Cao family in the south of Liaoning or the Gongsun family in the north of the county, the rent they receive will not make people unable to live.
The real big trouble comes from Kou Bian, an ethnic minority.The harsh natural environment has resulted in a brutal competition for survival in the Northland.In spring, summer and autumn, everyone produces independently; in winter, they plunder each other.
In this kind of environment, happy Maodong does not exist.
The villagers were busy strengthening the fortifications, the cavalry were busy being scouts and robbing others, the servants were busy training and practicing, even A Sheng and Cao Cao's children had to ride horses and bows to the hunting grounds.Whether the prey can be hunted or not is second, horseback riding and archery is still the most important social activity among the Liaodong nobles.
At least, it is the most important communication between the Cao family and Gongsun Du.
Gongsun Du is in his 30s this year, slightly older than Cao Cao and Cao Sheng. He also looks masculine in line with contemporary aesthetics, but there is a bit of depression in his eyebrows and eyes, which shows his dissatisfaction.
"Srustling." A slight sound came from the half-withered bushes.Ah Sheng frowned, his body had spontaneously set up his bow and shot an arrow. With a sound of "噗嗤", there was no sound among the grass blades.Two boy servants of the Cao family happily ran over and picked up a silly roe deer with brown fur.Arrows pierced the eyes.
Gongsun Du looked A Sheng up and down with somewhat surprised eyes: "Zhonghua looks weak, but his arrow skills are accurate." Archery is a labor of strength, and you can't draw the bow without a certain amount of arm strength, let alone accurate head.
Cao Cao is riding on a good black horse with a high bridge saddle, stepping on the stirrups, and is honored.
Ah Sheng couldn't accept this compliment so brazenly, he had to be humble. "I made Shengji laugh. If it was any farther away, I, a weakling, would be beyond my strength." After she finished speaking, she patted her horse forward and led her into the woods, where she shot another unlucky one within half an hour. rabbit and a hapless pheasant.After shooting three arrows, she has reached her limit.Shooting the fourth arrow will inevitably cause muscle strain.
"Brother, Sheng Ji." She turned her head to find Cao Cao and Gongsun Du, "I will stop here, and entrust the glory of punching bears and kicking wolves to the two of you."
The two young men laughed loudly: "Go to the camp and wait for our good news." Cao Cao also greeted his eldest son: "Aang, do you want to go back with your second uncle?"
Cao Ang rode a half-sized horse, held a half-sized bow, and tied a half-sized sword. His little face was flushed from the cold and he insisted: "I want to guard my father."
"Your son is not bad, he looks like a man." Gongsun Du boasted, but a glint of gloom flashed in his eyes, "The one in my family has been bullied to the head..."
Cao Cao is also a Liaodong master now, and he knows what's going on as soon as he hears it.Gongsunzhao and Gongsundu of the Gongsun family had always been at odds, so they deliberately humiliated Gongsundu's eldest son, saying that he would appoint the newly grown child as the corps leader.
What is a corporal?In the army, the person in charge of the five soldiers is called the corps leader, which is worse than the most basic squad leader in later generations.It is not so much an officer as a leader with a title.The son of the Gongsun family, the eldest son of the former governor of Jizhou, served as a leading soldier in his hometown in Youzhou, and if he said it, he would be laughed to death.
But Gongsun Zhao is the magistrate of Xiangping County, who has the power to appoint and dismiss grassroots troops.What can Gongsun Kang do as a young man, he can only refuse the call because he is sick.It's a joke, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is not a call at all, but someone wants to humiliate Gongsun Du's lineage.
A trace of sarcasm appeared at the corner of Gongsun Du's mouth: "After all, I lost my job as an old man and couldn't stand up for my children. If I'm still the governor of a state, let's see who else dares to make mistakes in Liaodong."
Cao Cao heard the sound of the strings and knew the elegant meaning: "Shengji is not an outsider, so I will tell you the truth. It is not a good time to seek an official in the same way as Shi Changshi. The eunuchs are in chaos, the people are full of grievances, and there are many bad omens in Kyushu. At this time, join the eunuch It is not good for reputation; in addition, their demands are getting more and more excessive, and the emperor sells another official. Even if you spend tens of millions of dollars, you may not be able to buy a governor. Otherwise, how could I, the son of Cao Cao Jiuqing, be under the command of less than [-] people? What about waiting for the county magistrate?"
Having said this, in addition to rejecting Gongsun Du's application for an official position, it also created an atmosphere of being the same as the fallen people in the world.But Gongsundu didn't like this, and immediately turned his mouth: "Meng De was joking. Which low-level county magistrate can appease tens of thousands of refugees; which low-level county magistrate led troops out of the customs to search Xianbei; Can you go back to Luoyang to report on your duties as the county magistrate? I think you are a hero..."
"According to Cao's meaning, it is better for Shengji and Cao to go to General He together." Cao Cao quickly activated Plan B, looking at Gongsun Du with a pair of black eyes sincerely, and almost pulled his hands to cry, "General Born in a humble background, why is the empress able to occupy a high position, so she is especially eager to seek talent regardless of her background. Now that the General’s Mansion is newly built, there is a lack of ministers everywhere, you and I go to the General, isn’t it better than bribing eunuchs to get ahead?”
Gongsun Du burst into tears: "If you get rich, you will never forget Meng De's kindness."
The two clapped their hands together as an alliance: "After the second day of the first lunar month, we will set off for the west."
Both are movie stars.
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