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

The friendly communication between the two teenagers didn't last long, Dou Ying followed the servants' instructions, but she was vigilant when she saw that Xia Anran and Dou Wan had a good relationship.

He has already discovered that there is a shortage of talents in Zhongshan Country. Although a group of newcomers have been recruited through selective selection this time, there is still an alternation between the old and the new, and they will not be available for a while, so even if he is an outsider, even if he still has Even the people of the imperial court were actually recruited as young men.

The lack of people in Zhongshan is so frantic that even his little nephew wants to dig it out. Now seeing the two children holding hands, Dou Ying felt extremely glaring, so he immediately smirked and asked his little nephew to pack his luggage Separate the hands of the two.

When the young boy entered the room and only Xia Anran and Dou Ying were left, the atmosphere fell into silence. The little prince took two steps closer and stood at a disadvantage.

Dou Ying patted the snowflakes on her clothes lightly, and said softly under the cover of this action: "Your Highness, don't worry. Your Majesty is wise and will not be deceived by bad people."

The little prince looked up at the sky and took a deep breath: "I know."

"Wei Qihou, the widow was thinking about it a few days ago, and suddenly figured out something."

"I would like to hear the details." Dou Ying was a little curious about what the little king was thinking, but Xia Anran didn't know what to say, "Let's not talk about it for now, let's wait until the time is right."

While the two were talking, they suddenly heard the snorting of the impatient pack horse.Dou Ying, who followed the sound, was taken aback for a moment, why, why are there so many carriages?

The cart that needs to be pulled by two horses is full of objects. At a glance, he saw that there were about eight or nine carts with the same regulations.The corner of the man's lips under the beard couldn't help twitching: "Your Highness, what is this?"

Xia Anran glanced at him suspiciously, as if you were asking knowingly: "Candle."

The man was shocked: "This, all these?"

"That's not true." Xia Anran struggled to pull her face out of her scarf and said, "There are only one or two carts of candles, and the rest are all porcelain."

Seeing that Dou Ying's expression suddenly stiffened, Xia Anran mistakenly thought that he was too heavy and didn't want to take it with him, so he hurriedly said, "Don't worry about Wei Qihou, I've already ordered someone to pack it, it can be transported..."

"Your Highness," Dou Ying interrupted him, taking a deep breath at the look of the little prince blinking and looking extremely innocent and kind, "Can you show me what kind of porcelain it is?"

Ah, yes, my uncle has been busy selecting talents since he came here, and I haven't seen the white porcelain and celadon porcelain he made.

Xia Anran looked at the truck, then at the serious face of Dou Ying, and suddenly felt a little guilty.

In the end Dou Ying left with a complicated face.When he stepped out of the threshold, Wei Qihou staggered a bit, and his distraught expression successfully frightened Zhidu who came to look for someone.Then, after the little king gave him the mouth shape of the porcelain, Zhidu also showed sympathy, thinking about his general reaction a few months ago, and now he feels a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, after Wei Qihou sat there for a while, he quickly restarted successfully, and returned to his steady and straightforward personality, but the eyes he looked at Xia Anran always had some ambiguous meaning.Seeing this, Zhi squinted his eyes slightly, and he exchanged glances with Zhai Yi, who came to deliver the letter together, and after a while, the team that originally wanted to go north with Wei Qihou changed.

This change did not alarm anyone.

That cabbage was the one that Xia Anran brought into Beijing this time.

Speaking of this, he made a mistake before, and it was pointed out by Dou Ying. The vegetable he thought was cabbage was called Sis at that time.The reason why he was not corrected before was because the artisans here thought that cabbage was the name of Chang'an. Besides, he was the king, let alone calling cabbage with a scorpion.

But if you want to send it to the palace, this mistake can't happen.

Xia Anran, who inexplicably lost a selling point of cabbage, was extremely disappointed, but then he thought that he had escaped a typical case of educating his children and grandchildren similar to "why not eat minced meat", and he was a little lucky.

In addition to packing the luggage, Xia Anran also had someone urgently grind out a bunch of rice noodles for Dou Ying to bring back to the capital to bring to the family. His enthusiasm was no less than that of a brat who went out to play and search for souvenirs.

Regarding Dou Ying's refusal, Xia Anran straightforwardly forced him into the car.

He eloquently said:

"Chang'an mainly uses millet and rice. As my grandmother and father grow older, they eat coarse grains that are difficult to digest. Rice noodles are made from rice soaked, ground and boiled. It is fine. My uncle also knows that Zhongshan natively produces rice, and so on. Meals are not extravagant."

"These have been dried, and they are already cooked. You just need to soak them in water to soften them and then supplement them with soup." The young boy said seriously, "This stuff is perishable, and it can only be taken in winter. It’s not yet the New Year’s Eve.”

Dou Ying smiled: "It's a coincidence that I came here..." He looked back at the furry little Highness, then at the whole convoy, and then at the bustling Lunu County Street, feeling a little complicated in his heart.

Although it is far away from Chang'an City, it is not as lively as the capital of the country, but life is peaceful, there are no endless banquets to attend, and endless people's hearts.

Most of the time he was here was busy, and occasionally he would eat chestnuts around the stove when he was free, or lie on the heated kang to read a book, and then go to the academy to see the preparatory activities before enrolling students, really leisurely.

The feeling of reluctance is only a few breaths, and a place that is too leisurely is indeed the place where people's ambitions are most likely to be shattered. His determination to fight for an official career is not dead, and this time leaving Beijing is not what he wanted, and this harvest is already good It's not a disaster, why bother to be greedy.

He let out a breath, and the melancholy and nostalgia dispersed in the cold winter air like a wisp of white mist. After a while, he put on a calm smile and turned over to the carriage.

In 153 BC, the fourth year of Emperor Jing's Yuan Dynasty, at the beginning of February, the entire Han court was busy commemorating the most important spring equinox day in a year.

And in the Weiyang Palace of Chang'an City, the most honorable man in the Han Dynasty only felt a throbbing pain in his head at this moment.

He had just issued an order to meet Dou Ying, the Marquis of the Wei Dynasty, and it was this order that made him feel uncomfortable all over.

Wei Qihou Dou Ying, a staunch royalist.

Straightforward and honest, he speaks and does things without turning a corner.

A few days ago, because of the matter of setting up the crown prince and Queen Dowager, Liu Qi hurriedly sent him out of Beijing before Queen Dowager Dou issued the edict, and threw him to his Jiu'er.The Ninth Prince Liu Sheng has just entered the feudal domain, and domestic affairs must be in chaos.

If Dou Ying is smart enough, he should find a way to stay there for a while.

But what he didn't expect was that in less than three months, Dou Ying returned to Chang'an City after counting the round trip time.

Empress Dowager Dou was sulking for half a month after he sent people out of the city, and was finally appeased. With this excuse, many officials in the court wrote to the Queen Mother, opposing Liu Wu's appointment as the crown prince.The time is more than half ripe, the emperor of the Han Dynasty originally planned to issue an edict in the next few days, making Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, the crown prince.

You said why this Dou Ying didn't come back sooner or later, why did he come back at this time?

Liu Qi thought troubledly.

Even when he came back, he brought several large carts into Beijing with great fanfare, as if he was afraid that others would not know.Who doesn't know why you left Beijing and where you went, this toss, probably your youngest son will be involved.

At this moment, Liu Qi felt restless because of the lawsuit.

At this time, footsteps came.

Dou Ying, who had already changed into the marquis' court clothes, came from outside the hall.Facing Liu Qi's unfriendly gaze, Dou Ying smiled awkwardly, then leaned over and bowed: "Minister Dou Ying pays homage to Your Majesty, and may Your Majesty be happy and worry-free."

"Hmph," Liu Qi snorted twice, with a somewhat eccentric tone, "Dou Ying, Dou Ying, do you know that I will not be able to enjoy myself long after you come here, nor will I be free from worries."

Dou Ying was not panicked when he heard the words, the emperor's little emotions were all within his expectation: "Your Majesty, I have brought you good news. Your Majesty the Custodian is very happy to hear it."

Oh?

Liu Qi was really curious.Although Dou Ying was a little happy and unsteady, but he was not a person who liked to boast, and his speech was quite conservative. This was the first time he heard Dou Ying speak in such a positive and boastful tone.

Since he said so, there should be some good news.

The emperor became a little interested, and he raised his hand slightly, motioning him to stand up straight and speak.Reminiscent of where Dou Ying went, he made some guesses, and asked directly: "Did Sheng'er's method of selecting talents come to fruition?"

"Did Sheng'er find a good talent?"

It did find it, and poached your corner.But Dou Ying said this sentence when he was stupid, and he replied very tactfully: "When it comes to the gathering of talented people, who can compare with the ones around His Highness."

Liu Qi ignored this poorly shot rainbow fart, he only signaled Dou Ying to speak directly, so Dou Ying asked someone to move in a wooden box, he took a few steps sideways, opened it and showed it to Liu Qi .

This is a box full of candles.

The man raised one eyebrow, feeling a little confused.

Although the candles are expensive, they are not enough to make a dignified Wei Qihou such a marquis.Looking at the light in the hall, he glanced at the box of candles, his eyes froze suddenly, he didn't know whether it was because of the light or something else, Liu Qi only felt that the color of the candle was a bit unusual.

A thought exploded in his mind, the man suddenly raised his hand, stood up with the support of his attendants, he walked quickly to the side of the box, picked up one of the boxes himself, shook it, and sniffed it closely, After careful consideration for a moment, I had some ideas in my mind.If it was as he thought, then Dou Ying had indeed done a great deed.

He put the candles back into the box, and stood with his arms folded: "Tell me, what's the matter? Where did they come from?" Dou Ying didn't dare to keep it secret anymore, and he explained the origin of these candles clearly in a respectful manner.

As soon as he heard that the matter was related to his Jiuer, Liu Qi thought to himself, he couldn't tell in the palace, is his youngest son such a man who can mess with things?

First it was papermaking, then it was kang, and now it is candles.

Liu Qi took the form written on paper from Dou Ying and read it carefully. When he saw the cost of this item, his eyes lit up and his mood immediately soared.

Dou Ying wrote about how to make wax from the perspective of a third party. The raw materials were easily available to the emperor. They were neither expensive nor took care of them. Of.

As for which one is cheaper between candles and lamps, it needs to be re-planned by integrating the number of domestic lacquer trees.But knowing that lacquer fruit is available, self-confidence is beneficial to the people's livelihood, it is beneficial to the government, and it is even more income for the common people.

Although Dou Ying said that this was the method of a capable person from Zhongshan, Liu Sheng just meant to pick up a peach.But how clever Liu Qi is, how could he fail to see whose handwriting it was?

Before leaving, the youngest son took a batch of books from Empress Bo. The Bo family had a queen mother and a queen. The background and power were no less than the current Queen Dowager Dou. The books that could be collected by Empress Bo were almost exquisite.

When the younger son left Beijing, most of the motorcade was used to put bamboo rolls.Perhaps it was because of this that the youngest son started to use his brain. If it wasn't for this, he might have to wait for a long time to see this paper.

It was cold and the palace was not built, so the kang was vacated.

He sent his youngest son only a handful of subordinates, and Zhongshan had no original royal officials, so everything had to start all over again, and the youngest son was sent in autumn and winter, so he had to choose talents for the spring festival.

If it weren't for this, the brat wouldn't have come up with such a method of selecting talents, let alone ask him for help.

Liu Qi snorted, a little in his heart that the son poked and moved to hate iron, but more of it was the pride of an old father.

After all, his son is a talent no matter what.

Of course, he will not show this pride.Liu Qi rolled his eyes and pointed to another box with the corner of the book: "Is this also a candle?"

"No." Dou Ying opened the box sideways, and handed a brocade box inside to the eunuch who came up, and the latter took it and passed it to the emperor.Liu Qi raised his hand and motioned for the eunuch to open it. The moment the brocade box was opened, the room seemed to be bright.

As the lord of a country, Liu Qi's ordinary life is not extravagant, but this does not mean that there is a slightest problem with his aesthetics.

Moreover, no matter whether people have aesthetic problems or not, when they see this porcelain cabbage, they will not have any thoughts other than praise.The superimposed product of green glaze and white glaze can be regarded as an art decoration even in modern times, let alone today.

Liu Qi picked it up with both hands, and shook his sleeves a little, because he was afraid that the trembling of the material would pull and break this treasure.As an emperor, there are not a few rare treasures within his reach, and there are even a lot of ingenious craftsmen, but among them, there is not a single one that is as beautiful as this one so that people feel shocking.

He held the jade cabbage with both hands, and carefully touched the arc of its leaves with his fingertips.

From the snow-white vegetable stalks to the green leaves, and finally to the tip of the leaf that seems to have condensed a puddle of clear water, wherever his fingertips can reach, the glaze is tightly bonded, without any trace of splicing. This proves that this is a piece of porcelain fired and cast at the same time, which is even more rare.

After discovering this, Liu Qi sighed deeply in his heart.His eyes lingered for a long time before he put the porcelain back into the brocade box, clicked on it in the void without hesitation, and made a judgment: "The treasure really captivates the mind,"

Dou Ying understood his thoughts very well.

In fact, if he hadn't seen all kinds of porcelain on Xia Anran's side, many of which were high-quality goods, his tolerance would have improved after seeing too much.When he saw this thing, his first thought was possession.

Liu Qi stood with his eyes closed, and took some time to stabilize his mind. When he opened his eyes again, he looked at this porcelain with a little indifference.

He has cultivated himself for many years, and he has been the prince for 22 years. This life experience has brought him wealth that other emperors do not have, that is-restraint.

The restraint of power allowed him to endure the shackles of the Bo family, as well as the empress dowager's repeated intervention in politics.

The restraint of emotions will allow him to kill his beloved concubine as soon as he wants to, without mercy.

The restraint of material desires has made him emperor for many years, and the treasures in the inner treasury are still barren.

As the saying goes, it is the character of the two emperors, Wenjing and Wenjing. They restrained themselves and did not indulge their desires as emperors, so they gave the people free play without being interfered, and created the rule of Wenjing.

The emperor gave a wry smile, only feeling that his many years of self-cultivation and self-cultivation were ruined by an offering made by a brat at home.If the youngest son is in front of him, I must pinch his little fleshy face, and then poke his little head, to see if I can poke some more ideas out of his head.

After completing this scene in his mind, Liu Qi felt much more at ease.

After signaling the person to close the lid of the brocade box to cover up the light of the porcelain, he looked at the other brocade boxes inside the wooden box, and this time he asked someone to open them all in one go.

Compared with the ingenious porcelain cabbage before, the rest of these things can only be said to be commonplace. Emperor Han Jing, whose threshold was suddenly raised, was indifferent when he saw these pure white porcelain exhibitions.

He put his hands in his sleeves, with no expression on his face, but he looked at Dou Ying with unusually deep eyes: "Tell me."

Dou Ying took out another letter: "Your Majesty, what I just said to reassure Your Majesty is not these porcelains, but this document."

Emperor Jing didn't wait for his servant to hand it over to him and took it directly.Seeing him raise his hand, Dou Ying hurriedly bowed down, and raised his hands above his forehead, as a gesture of submission and harmlessness.

Liu Qi unfolded it and saw that the youngest son's handwriting was written on the paper.

This word has grown a lot, and it has a bit of character. The emperor quickly scanned ten lines at a glance.

Because this is not a formal memorial, Xia Anran did not write it according to the format of the feudal prince's memorial, but instead used a more intimate tone.After he wrote a few sentences about his daily life and cared about his old father's health, he introduced his great discovery to his father in a relaxed tone.

After seeing the unique environment of Zhongshan country, which can produce white porcelain in large quantities, and the craftsmen have developed and built a regular kiln that can be used for stable firing of porcelain, Liu Qi's brows that were originally inadvertently relaxed little by little.Liu Sheng only spoke a few words, but he clearly stated the information he wanted to know.

Available for mass production.

The emperor's well-maintained fingers slowly slid under the three words. He lowered his eyes and pondered for a long time before he said: "Dou Ying, Sheng'er asked you to bring these things to the capital. Why?"

Seeing Dou Ying opening his mouth to speak, the man suddenly raised his index finger and tapped him with the tip of his finger: "I'll think it through, my son, I know it well."

Dou Ying's heart shuddered, and she choked back the long paragraph that was originally prepared to portray the little prince Liu Sheng as an ordinary playful kid who hurriedly showed his father to see if he wanted to make some achievements.

With a sudden change in his mind, he said frankly: "Your Majesty, Your Highness wants me to ask you if you can trade porcelain with the Xiongnu."

Liu Qi heard the words but did not express his opinion, his face was expressionless, showing no emotion, as if he hadn't heard anything.

But as long as there is no anger on the spot, it is good news, not to mention that once the words have been spoken, they will be overwhelmed.Dou Ying could only bite the bullet and continue talking under the emperor's unknown reaction.

He told him the words and phrases when Xia Anran was sent off. The King of Zhongshan wanted to exchange porcelain for the frontier residents who were taken away by the Huns. aliens.

"Foreigners? What does he want foreigners for?"

"I don't know, maybe His Highness is young and has never seen a foreigner, so he wants to hear the stories outside."

"Ah……"

Liu Qi chuckled lightly, but did not comment. He turned around slowly and walked towards the chief seat, but kept stroking the letter written by his younger son with his fingertips hidden in his sleeve.

Just when Dou Ying thought that this test was over, he suddenly heard Liu Qi's shocking words: "Wei Qihou, do you have the answer to the question I asked you before you left?"

Dou Ying was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help thinking back to the question Liu Qi asked at that time - Wei Qihou, since you are so resolutely opposed to King Liang being the prince, do you have a promising prince?

——Back to Your Majesty, the minister has none.

For a moment, Dou Ying felt two wars. He hurriedly knelt down on the ground, his lips trembling, but after thinking for a while, he still said: "Return to Your Majesty, yes."

Liu Qi was not angry, nor did he ask who his favorite person was, because there was no need to ask.

He is extremely calm now, and even a little curious: "Counting the time you spent back and forth, Qing and King Zhongshan have only been together for a month. In the past, you have never shown such a biased attitude in Chang'an City. What is the change?" Do you think what you want?"

The relationship between the monarch and his ministers in the Han Dynasty was casual, but no matter how casual it was, it would not tolerate the ministers' interference in the king's heir affairs.Although Liu Qi's attitude seemed to be casual chatting, Dou Ying didn't dare to be lighthearted, so he sorted out his thoughts.

The incident happened suddenly, and he didn't have time to make up a set of euphemisms, so he could only say one by one according to his own thoughts: "Your Majesty, do you still remember, how long has Your Majesty been here?"

Liu Qi stood in front of the table and said very cooperatively: "It happened to be the autumn of last year when Sheng'er left, and it has been about eight months since then."

"Your Majesty, do you know what the first thing Liu Sheng did after entering the feudal kingdom?"

I don't know this, Liu Qi raised his jaw with some interest to signal him to continue.

"His Highness turned into an ordinary child, with only two or three guards, and a few carts of bamboo rolls, and traveled all over most of the counties in Zhongshan Kingdom."

The emperor's eyes flashed, and he heard Dou Ying say: "Your Highness wrote down the situation of various places in a book, and in the end a special carriage was needed to pull those bamboo rolls. His Highness deeply felt that the bamboo rolls were inconvenient, and he had to use paper-making tools donated by a talented person." On the way back to Lunu, he ordered the purchase of rice stalks to make paper."

"Since His Royal Highness has been in the feudal domain, no palace has been built, and the site has not even been selected for the palace. The only place that has shown signs of construction is a warm soup pool. I once asked His Highness why he ignored the palace and repaired the warm soup first. His Highness replied: , all because His Majesty likes to soak warm soup, but warm soup can only be soaked in summer and autumn, so he wants to try to bring warm soup water into the room, so that he will not be afraid of the cold wind, this is Chunchun's filial piety in front of the palace."?

"Since wanting to draw warm water, His Highness asked someone to think about burning the pipes. Because the pipes needed were longer, he built a long kiln... so by chance, the porcelain was fired."

Is that so?This was a bit unexpected, Liu Qi's lips raised slightly: "Did Sheng'er tell you?"

"The king of Zhongshan would never mention this to his minister. In fact..." Dou Ying smiled wryly, "I didn't know about Zhongshan's domestic porcelain until I was about to leave."

Liu Qi then listened to Dou Ying's seemingly genuine and false complaints. From being "show off his wealth" before leaving, to being too late to visit the Changyao due to the urgency of time, he could only ask the soldiers who were in charge of escorting the goods in Zhongshan along the way. While satisfying the curiosity, I almost missed the golden mountain and the silver mountain. It couldn't be worse.

"After I arrived in Zhongshan, Your Highness was busy selecting talents, so I asked you to help me." Seeing Liu Qi's posture softened, Dou Ying breathed a sigh of relief, and said frankly, "It's not that His Highness deliberately concealed... It's just that I think that Your Highness Didn't really care about that."

The emperor sat with the backlight, and couldn't see his expression, but Dou Ying felt that the atmosphere in the hall was getting warmer, and he felt a little relieved.

Liu Qi sat down slowly, and also gave Dou Ying a seat. After Dou Ying thanked her, she became more confident: "Your Majesty, Your Highness said, he has your permission to build a school?"

"Well, there is indeed such a thing." The emperor replied calmly.The youngest son sent a special letter to ask him what kind of talent he wanted, and said that he would teach whatever books he wanted. Although Liu Qi was moved after reading it, he saw that the youngest son said frankly, "If it is a book that I haven't read, I still have to read it." Please father give him a few copies" and then disappeared without a trace.

The little prince was only 11 years old when he became a fan, how many books can he read?

This letter was basically to ask for a book, Liu Qi selectively deleted from his memory the appearance of being extremely proud while scolding and writing the list.

Then, he heard Dou Ying say, "The first complete and mature heating kang in Zhongshan is in the school house."

According to Dou Ying, laying warm roads in the school dormitories first and arranging for the recruited officials to live here collectively has become Xia Anran's practice of seeking talents and respecting scholars.

The filter can be said to be very deep.

The author has something to say:

Welcome to today's Xia Miaozhi: I think I'm poor, why don't you believe in the nest!I don't even have talent!I'm so poor that all I have is porcelain!

Dou Ying: Hehe, Ah Wan won’t give it.

Liu Qi: Hehe, my son, Dad still has several people who are raising you.

The rest of Chang'an: Hehe.