The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

When Xia Anran received the letter from her younger brother, Xia Anran had just had a moment of respite from the busy work of hitting the back of her head with her feet.Some time ago he was busy doing the final rehearsal for the puppet show. After the play was finalized, these people would be sent to the capital to perform.

Although Zhongshan is now a popular tourist city, it is still not as influential as Chang'an in terms of influence, and the market is not as big as there. What's more, the people who need to be influenced most by this drama are in Chang'an.

The puppet masters were stunned when they heard that they were going to perform in Chang'an, and at the same time they were a little flustered. They didn't expect His Highness to expect so much from them, but they gradually calmed down from the panic after listening to the little king.His Highness actually wanted them to show the play to His Highness's biological mother, Mrs. Jia!Isn't this the same as asking for praise for something good your child has done.

Ouch, thinking about it like this makes everyone feel a lot easier.

Seeing that the expressions of several people became relaxed, Han Ying, who was on the sidelines, didn't have the nerve to remind them that His Highness indeed asked them to act for Mrs. Jia.

The issue is……

Mrs. Jia lived in Weiyang Palace.Since Mrs. Jia wants to read it, don't other concubines watch it?The concubine has watched it, but your majesty doesn't?Cough, forget it, it's better not to tell these people, the psychological pressure is indeed a bit greater.

In addition to rehearsing, Xia Anran was also training these people's living habits during this time.

It is mainly the habit of ensuring the safety of dolls.After all, this is the Western Han Dynasty, when witchcraft was prevalent, and dolls are really sensitive. To outsiders, they are all made of wood. After opening, they can definitely hide things inside. Even if they don’t hide, it’s easy for someone to frame them. As for the clothes, who can't make a slit in the inside and stuff something inside?

But if they actually operate it, they will find that it is really not easy to plug.

Because the middle torso of the puppet is hollow, and the hands of the puppeteer are placed in it, and the real part is actually only the limbs and head of the doll.

The solid part is repeatedly painted to ensure that the doll's skin has the real color and brightness, and these paints are not simple white paint, but white paint, colored paint, varnish and other layers are stacked, so as to ensure a uniform skin color.

According to different personalities, the skin color of the doll is different. For example, Zhu Yingtai's skin color is white with pink, and there is a little light red on the cheeks. Even without makeup, she is still beautiful. Liang Shanbo's skin color is obvious Much darker.

This kind of lacquer work is not a day or two. It is almost impossible to break it, and it is almost impossible to imitate it. Even the artisans who make dolls cannot guarantee that the same doll can be made again. After all, natural pigments are uncontrollable. Sex is too high.

But even so, it is not without loopholes to catch.During this time, Xia Anran asked these people to pay 100% attention to the doll, including the clothing and pendants, to prevent bag loss.

On the other hand, he also brought in two police dogs to take care of the security. By the way, he also made double insurance. If the doll smelled like someone else, the two big dogs would bark and call the police.

At that time, it should be no problem to get a big box with a lock or something, but Xia Anran still plans to write a letter to her mother first, and let her take care of it to avoid any troubles.

These two dogs had a relationship with Xia Anran once before, and they met during the Chinese New Year, and now they are much stronger and more powerful, and there are many medals on their collars.At first glance, it is the kind that is particularly capable.

It is very normal for the little king to use police dogs as guards. On the contrary, other people often walk around to see the strange things, and some deliberately test whether the dog is okay, but they are finally overwhelmed by the capabilities of the police dogs.Even knowing whether something has been touched, this is much more advanced than looking after a nursing home!

All of a sudden, the kennel was surrounded by countless fiery eyes, and even the two big dogs were housed by cats, and they took the little bitch at home to walk around in front of the big dogs when they had nothing to do.

Xia Anran didn't care about these movements.After he finished his work, he continued to focus on the issue of river expansion.

There are many rivers in the territory of Zhongshan, but there are only two that go abroad, the Hutuo River in Beihuo and Henan.The waterway of the Hutuo River in the south has been opened, and it is time to consider the Hutuo River.

Strictly speaking, the economic benefit of the Huhe River is better than that of the Hutuo River, because it can lead to Quanzhou County—in terms of geographical location, it is almost the future Tianjin Port.

Quanzhou Port is one of the ports opened earlier in history. Its biggest advantage is that it can reach North Korea and Japan in the north, and Shandong and Guangling along the coastline in the south. If there are supplies along the way, it will reach Fuzhou or even South Vietnam. Should not be difficult.

Dahan's international trade has been relatively developed. Of course, this is also thanks to the Qin Dynasty. Although it is a bit embarrassing to say so, the old Liu family has indeed taken advantage of the Qin Dynasty. The road is one, and the developed ports and sea ships are another. .

In his later years, Emperor Qin was obsessed with the culture of overseas immortals. He built many sea-going ships and frequently built ports for this purpose. These areas are all coastal areas, which were not damaged in the Chu-Han wars in the previous few years.It's just that most of the eastern coastal areas of the Han Dynasty are fiefdoms of princes and kings. Except for the very, very rich Wu Wang Liu Bi, the rest of the area has no intention of using ocean transportation.

The reason is very simple. Except for a few areas where the wind and waves are relatively calm, most of the coastal areas are disturbed by typhoons. Under the ravages of typhoons, the port area built with wood is like paper.No matter how rich people are, they can't afford to repair the port area every year.

And when the wind blows, the ship will also be damaged. Even if the ship is parked in the dock, there is a chance that it will be destroyed.

In general, the construction of seaports is particularly costly in the period when there is no reinforced concrete.

However, Quanzhou Port is not troubled by this, because it is in the middle of the Bohai Bay, and the Shandong Peninsula protects it from the typhoon going south.

Of course, there are also disadvantages.

The modern Tianjin Port is a deep-water port built by manual dredging. Today, there is no large-scale sand washing equipment. Although the Loess Plateau is far from being as degraded as it is in modern times, the Yellow River flowing through the desert is also full of sand. No matter where you go, the scene of big waves washing the sand still exists.

In the Western Han Dynasty, when the Yellow River flowed into the Bohai Sea, the silt was naturally accumulated in the Bohai Bay. Therefore, the continental shelf of the Bohai Sea waters near the coastline is higher than that of ordinary areas, which limits the draft of the ship. Too much cargo is not buoyant enough, and it is easy to hit the bottom.

Therefore, after entering the Tang and Song Dynasties when foreign trade was highly developed and the shipbuilding industry also made great progress, Tianjin Port was replaced by the nearby Shandong Dengzhou Port.

but now……

Xia Anran snapped his fingers, and felt that based on the current trade volume, considering the current situation on the Korean Peninsula, and the situation on the Japanese island chain... um...he thinks that the focus should be on the near ocean and the coast of Dahan. In terms of transportation, one of the two places has just had enough food and clothing. Except for ginseng and wild animal skins, I guess there is no good luck. Whether the other has food and clothing is still a problem.

If you want to go to the ocean, wait until you take South Vietnam and go from Guangdong or Fujian.It is said that the South Vietnamese country had to develop ocean transportation to the outside world after its economy was blocked by the big Han, and it did a very impressive job.

Therefore, after conquering South Vietnam, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately took over South Vietnam's trade routes and business routes to continue to develop foreign trade.In the early days, when the land Silk Road was interrupted intermittently, the transportation of many goods and the income of funds were supported by maritime trade.

Although he said he was too lazy to care about it, Xia Anran was thinking about it when he saw his younger brother crying and telling him that his father was bad and plotting against him.

If placed in other dynasties, he would definitely not support raising the status of merchants.

Because human nature is greedy, and when the status of businessmen is high, they will find ways to hold the powerful and powerful for self-protection and future generations. Collusion between officials and businessmen can control one party, and even support local students and intervene in scientific examinations to obtain talents. A local force capable of influencing the central court.

This was the case in the late Ming Dynasty, when capital controlled politics, so in desperation, the most profitable ocean trade was closed in the late Ming Dynasty.

But this is a big man.

The only big man who has been dubbed strong and perishing, Confucian culture, and the unity of man and nature have not yet been popularized.

Xia Anran thought for a while about the behavior of the rulers of the Western Han Dynasty...and then thought about the behavior of the rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty...then silently looked through the major punishment regulations of the Han Dynasty. Hands, stretch feet and chop feet.

The most important thing is that it is not so easy to influence the central government through this method now that there is no imperial examination system.

One disadvantage of the imperial examination system compared with the recommendation system is that the distribution of high school students is uneven, and there are more students from the south than the north, while the recommendation system means that every place must recommend a person regardless of economic conditions. Play out the dog's brains.

At this time, Xia Anran didn't know that his father and younger brother had already started to test the waters of the imperial examination, so he was very relieved now.

He felt that the dredging of the river and shipbuilding technology stood between him and the Haihe intermodal transport.

The shipbuilding technology can be put aside for the time being. Zhongshan No. [-] is about to go out of the bay. The reason why No. [-] took so long to build is to meet the needs of sea-river intermodal transportation.

The dredging of the river is indeed a problem.After entering the Zhongshan Kingdom, the Fuhe River was divided into several tributaries. First, he had to choose which one of them would be the main river, and then widen and deepen it to build a port. Moreover, this time the Fuhe River flows through the neighboring Zhuo County. awesome.

This is not the same river channel that was opened with Zhongshan Kingdom and Hejian Kingdom before. It is a feudal king's territory that has a certain right to take care of himself.

If it involves states and counties, you must discuss it with your old father. Leaving aside the future benefits of this mess, the upfront expenses alone are not a small sum.And to put it bluntly, this road is mainly driven by Zhongshan and Zhuojun, which is likely to be opposed by others.

When Xia Anran was thinking about how to write about this matter, her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sound of wings flapping.Duoduo geese descended from the sky, folded their wings gracefully outside, and then waddled in.

"Duodo?" Xia Anran was a little surprised, he stretched out his hand, and Duoduo's two little feet jumped onto his knee with great force, and rubbed against his arms extremely intimately.

It stretched its neck for Xia Anran to see. The little king stroked the goose's neck, and then took out a piece of paper from his collar. I didn't even notice when the cub at home went to Yuyang County.

Xia Anran didn't dare to let Duoduo pass these days, because he was afraid that when Duoduo flew over, he would happen to encounter the Han-Hungarian battle. Usually, no one was idle and bored to shoot geese, but the situation was different in wartime. In order to make the bow and arrow stronger The speed and piercing ability of the guns have a upward shooting angle when attacking in groups.

If the goose happened to be injured by a particularly outstanding arrow when it flew over, who would Xia Anran find to cry?Unexpectedly, he didn't let people fly, so Duoduo ran over by himself.

While opening the letter, Xia Anran rubbed Goose's face and warned: "In the future, you are not allowed to go by yourself if Dad didn't let you go, do you hear me?"

"Jiujiu!" Duoduogoose thought his father was praising it, his eyes narrowed, and his long neck hung around Xia Anran's neck as soon as it drooped.

That's right, the height of the standing Duo Duo Goose is about 1.6 meters, taller than Xia Anran who is kneeling on the ground.

Xia Anran was a little out of breath.Fortunately, Duoduo is a bird after all. Although it is big in size, it has limited weight. He pulled the bird into his arms a few times before unfolding the letter paper.

The first sentence made his eyes widen.

——Qingqing Jingxi sees the letter like nothing.

He, his man has only been released for a few days, and he already knows how to talk dirty!

The little king's face turned red, and he still called him. After Xia Anran got his name, not many people called him, and not many people even knew about it.Dou Wan's sudden call made Xia Anran always feel like she was being called by a nickname.

Strange, strange shy.

He pursed his lips and continued to look down. Dou Wan's letter was not long. He explained to Xia Anran the situation of the attack on Yuyang County in the north in a few words. Army won.

If this letter hadn't been sent by this person after the war instead of before the war, Xia Anran would have been worried to death.He frowned and spread the paper to write. The first sentence was to remind this person that when writing letters in the future, he must explain his situation clearly before saying anything else.

Then he thought about it, and felt that he should send someone over to take a look, as it was too anxious to wait for the letters to come and go.

Unexpectedly, when he was still thinking about who to take the time to visit, Zhidu would obediently and automatically come to the door.The Erqianshi expressed his interest in the battle of Yuyang, to be precise, he was interested in the defensive effect of Wengcheng.

It's just that as a two-thousand stone, leaving the position is not allowed, but Xia Anran agreed after hearing his reasons, there is nothing wrong with his subordinates willing to learn by themselves, but if you want to leave, you must first find a successor.Xia Anran didn't want to be staggered by some scattered affairs.

It took half a month for Zhidu to go back and forth, and Xia Anran finally knew how Yuyang's battle was a beautiful defensive battle.

"Fake city gate?" He widened his eyes, "Why, how did you make the fake city gate?"

Zhidu was already stunned, but now he is very calm, "The governor of Yuyang asked craftsmen to stick a layer of wood on the outside of the city wall with plaster."

Xia Anran: "... sticky?"

Zhi thought he didn't believe it, and added: "It's even reinforced."

Xia Anran: "..."

There is still such an operation? !He recalled the appearance of his own city gate... No, the hinges of the city gate are all inside the door opening, and it looks like a horizontal plane on the surface. If it is glued, it will be obvious.

Zhidu explained very calmly: "They wrapped a layer of bricks around the outside of the fake door."

The little king was in awe, indeed, if you look at it this way, it is the same as a normal city gate, at least it is enough to fool foreigners.

I don't know which hero made it upside down... My heart is really dirty!No, it's really tactical and strategic thinking.

He thought that Zhidu would next say that he would build a door in Zhongshan, but Zhidu said that this would not work in Zhongshan.

The main advantage of being able to get to the Xiongnu in Yuyang County is that the enemy and the enemy do not know each other. The Huns do not know the architectural features of the Han people. If the enemy really attacked Zhongshan, they would have passed through many gates along the way.

Even if the Xiongnu were too stupid to distinguish the situation, abducting a Han on the way would be enough for them to identify.

Moreover, there are many people coming and going at the city gate on the northern line of Zhongshan Country. It is far easier to hide this secret than the sparsely populated border gate.

But it's not impossible to operate. Zhidu just came to discuss this issue with the little king. What he meant was that half of the city could be sealed. Most of the population and caravan travel will choose the road.

Because the avenue leads to the commercial city and the northern city gate leads to Dai County, so except for the large traffic on this road during the Han-Hungarian trade, the average daily traffic is not large.

If only one opening is used to enter and exit, it can be used at a critical moment, at least it can catch the enemy by surprise, for example, it can carry out a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

Having a hole card in hand always makes people feel more at ease

This is a good thing, Xia Anran naturally wouldn't object.However, he is also a bit puzzled. Zhidu's recent actions are more or less like a slap in the face. From building the city wall before to taking the initiative to learn now, they are not very similar to his style of doing things.

"The prime minister thinks there will be a war between the Han and the Hungarian?"

Zhidu pondered for a moment, but did not reply positively, "In the past, our soldiers were not strong and our horses were not strong, so we could only avoid battles. Now it is not what it used to be."

understood.Xia Anran nodded.My own prime minister is also from the backbone faction, which is normal.

The goshawks in history have all reached the level where the Huns were psychologically shadowed. In the end, some soldiers even dared not attack when they heard this name.It is said that the Huns also secretly set up a small wooden man and placed them there so that soldiers could take turns facing the wooden man to relieve their psychological pressure.

In fact, there was something that had been in his mind for a long time, and now... Xia Anran felt it was time to speak out.

"Zhidu." He called the prime minister who had been with him for six years by first and last name, "Do you want...to become an official in the frontier?"

He asked calmly against the sharp eyes that suddenly looked over: "Do you want to go to the battlefield?"

"If you want..." the young Zhongshan King said softly, "I can take you there."

Zhidu was speechless for a moment, he was silent for a long time, but still shook his head slightly.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness. If one day the front line is in an emergency and your majesty is short of major generals, I will go to the front even if I resign from the position of prime minister. But now..." The man's usual stern face showed a smile, "I would rather Stay in Zhongshan country and watch the country under His Highness grow little by little."

"...That's good." Xia Anran patted her chest, and then smiled, "Zhongshan country cannot do without the Prime Minister, frankly speaking, I was also nervous just now, I was afraid to hear that the Prime Minister said that he wanted to leave of."

The little king, who admitted that his face was swollen and fat, stood up, pulled out a few bamboo scrolls from the shelf, and walked back with them in his arms, "Why don't you take a look, Prime Minister, this is the book I wrote a few days ago and I want to play it." Things."

Zhidu took it over the scroll, and his brows were immediately knotted.He looked at what the little king had written above about uniting Zhuo County to clean up and dredge the Fuhe River, and suddenly felt that maybe it would be easier to go to the frontier than to stay in Zhongshan.

The spring breeze brings warmth, and the continuous spring rain brings the power of new life.

When the white on the prairie was gradually replaced by green, the Huns who had endured a hard winter also returned to their most comfortable pace of life.

There was a happy event in the royal court of the Huns. Princess Nangong of the Han Dynasty, that is, their Da Yan family, gave birth to their first child for His Majesty, a healthy boy.

When the prince was born, the military minister Shan Yu was overjoyed. He held up the crying baby and said to his cronies: "This prince has the blood of both Han and Hungarian countries at the same time, and is an important link between the Han and the Huns." .”

At the same time, he named the child Ridge.磾 is a kind of black pigment, the Huns often use it to dye clothes.Most of the Hungarians choose their names more casually, and the inspiration usually comes from a momentary association when they see children, so others don't find it strange.

But this time the military minister Shan Yu actually thought of the allusion of the child's name early.

Ridge, the black stone in the sun, always lives in the dark of the sun, this is the identity he gave this child.

Little Rizhao seemed to know his fate that had been fixed since he was born, so he uttered his first cry in his father's arms.

A few days later, the envoys to announce the good news to the Han Dynasty were about to leave, but the Han Dynasty's envoys arrived first, and the military minister Shan Yu personally received them.Originally thought that these people came to congratulate Nangong after calculating the time to give birth, but unexpectedly, the other party gave him a head-on blow.

"What did you say?" The Xiongnu Da Shanyu frowned tightly, and he asked in an unbelievably upbeat tone, "You said that I, the Huns, attacked you big man?"

The envoys of the Xiongnu sent a lot of utensils, but this time it was not a gift to the Xiongnu Shanyu first, but the armor of the Xiongnu soldiers who came to attack Han.

This set of leather armor is indeed a product of the Huns. The military officer Shanyu immediately frowned. What made him angry was not that someone attacked the Han, but that someone attacked the Han without his knowledge. His authority was openly challenged. .

The envoy put these armors on the ground, took out the official documents with a very cold expression, and announced a news that was not good for the Huns-the big man unilaterally announced that the Han and Huns would stop their marriage.

Marriage is the guarantee of peace between the Han and Hungarians, and stopping the marriage means a warning from the Han side.If you want to translate it, it means that the Han army is ready to go to war, and if you dare to come, you will slap your mouth.

This is not good news for the Huns. Although there has been no marriage between the Han and the Huns in the past few years, it can be said that both the Han and the Huns respected Princess Nangong. Princess Nangong of the family is adding to the blockage.

It is not a concept that the Xiongnu did not ask for marriage and stopped marriage.

But at this time, the Xiongnu Shanyu had to endure this tone. He said in a good voice that the relationship between the Han and the Huns was unbreakable. Some of them must want to destroy the friendship between the Han and the Huns. He told the Han envoy that he would definitely investigate this matter. It's time to give the big man an explanation.

On the other hand, the military minister Shan Yu also played the emotional card, saying that Princess Nangong had just given birth, and he was going to send a mission to the Han Dynasty to announce the good news at the first time, and even prepared gifts and documents. This shows that he is full of enthusiasm Sincerely.

The big man's emissary's expression was well managed, and he nodded very reservedly, saying that in this case, we will wait for your reply and use it as the standard for the mutual market this autumn.

After sending off the envoy of the Han Dynasty, the military official Shan Yu said with a grim expression, "Check!"

Then, he squeezed the word out between his teeth, "Call me Yu Dan!"

The envoy of the great Han then went to visit Nangong Dayan who had just given birth.

The Xiongnu did not have the habit of confinement, but Nangong Dayan was still very weak after giving birth, so he still stayed in bed to recuperate.The Han envoy only brought greetings from the Han Palace and some medicinal herbs, and didn't say much else.On the contrary, Nangong Dayan's mood fluctuated violently after giving birth. She insisted on asking the Han envoy to wait outside, and then wrote a list of seeds that she had tried to plant for several years on the spot.

Halfway through, she shed tears because she couldn't remember what else, and the maids comforted and reminded her softly, so she finished writing the letter with sobs.

The envoy took it with both hands. Seeing that it was filled with seed planting records, he sighed after hearing the maid beside the princess explain the situation, "The princess is all for the Huns, so I don't know if the Huns are worth it."

"What did the envoy say?" It was the maid brought by Princess Nangong who was sent to contact the Han envoy. At this time, the woman's eyes were rounded, and a worried look appeared on her brows, "The Han and Xiong are going to war again. gone?"

The envoy shook his head and didn't say anything. He just took a step sideways and bowed to the head of the tent where Nangong was located. This kind of movement immediately attracted the attention of the onlookers, and the maid immediately returned the bow.

The envoy represented the Great Han Kingdom outside. He bowed to the princess, or bowed down. Of course, as a maid of the Han Palace, he couldn't stand still.

It looks like a deer with a long tail and two horns on top. It is a brave.

Beast of War, Pixiu.

She lowered her eyes, extraordinarily docile.