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

After arriving in Zhongshan, Miss Chen Jiao felt like a fish in water. The little girl was originally extroverted, but after the initial adaptation period passed, she immediately let her feet go wild.

It was agreed to compete with Liu Che, the little girl was very contracted and did not study with the little king's husband, she was completely reviewing and previewing by herself, but the situation is obviously different now, Liu Che's identity has changed.

In the past, it could be said to be a joke between cousins, but in the future the nature will be different.

Moreover, Liu Che's education as a prince will be different from the past.If Chen Jiao competes with him again, the situation will become very complicated.

Regarding this point, Xia Anran did not approve of the little girl getting together again.

Because it is not necessary.

Whether she wins or loses, it is not good for Chen Jiao.And from the missioner's point of view, Xia Anran also hoped that Chen Jiao would stop getting involved with Liu Xiaozhu.

The two have very similar personalities, and they are both very thoughtful types. If they get together in the end, they will definitely be a bitter couple.

But even though he thought so, he didn't try to persuade the little girl.Chen Jiao is a very thoughtful girl, and she is born with a strong personality. For this kind of woman, Xia Anran has nothing to do with her.

Because the lord of the country has not yet married a wife and has no relationship with concubines, the palace of Zhongshan Kingdom is completely yang and yin, and because there are no female relatives, the men can move more freely, but it is different after Chen Jiao lives in La.

Not only Chen Jiao was uncomfortable, but even Xia Anran, who was used to the activity mode, was a little awkward.

After all, the two of them were getting older, in order to avoid trouble, she moved out of the palace half a year after Chen Jiao arrived.At first, she lived in the place arranged by the little king, but later she felt that this was not enough freedom, so she simply spent money to buy a homestead in Lunu and built a house by herself.

Chen Jiao was favored, and the money she received since she was a child was very rich. In addition, Princess Tao and Queen Dowager Dou both sponsored her a sum of money for this trip. The carriage would not move at all.

The little king welcomed his cousin's sponsorship of Zhongshan's real estate business, so he exempted his cousin from a purchase tax.

However, recently, the little cousin seems to be obsessed with horse archery, so she bought a small manor in the suburbs and planted a lot of flowers and plants.

After Empress Bo came some time ago, Chen Jiao proudly invited Empress Bo to live in her Zhuangzi.

At that time, the little king was busy deciphering Nangong's letter and completely ignored the two of them. After confirming that Queen Bo's body was actually fine, he let the two women do what they wanted.

It's just that Empress Bo can't escape her pulse once a day, and even Chen Jiao has to be pinched on the wrist from time to time.

Now Chunyu Yi, a state-owned Chinese medicine master in Zhongshan, and his student team are here, and medical technology has skyrocketed.

After discussing with Queen Bo, Queen Bo generously agreed to make teaching materials.Therefore, Chunyu Yi enthusiastically brought a group of students to see Empress Bo every day, and taught the students how to use more expensive medicinal materials to prepare medicines and cook medicinal meals.

This opportunity is really rare. Some medical craftsmen can't see these expensive medicinal materials in their whole life. How to prepare and mix them is all knowledge.

Under Chunyu Yi's full exertion, and the living environment in Zhongshan Kingdom is indeed more relaxed than that in Chang'an, Empress Bo took a walk here every day to bask in the sun and read a book, and her condition soon improved.

Chen Jiao was quite happy to see Empress Bo.Before here, there was only her as a female relative, and all social circles had to be rebuilt, not to mention, there was no common language.

In Zhongshan country, the few people she can talk to are Cheng Bushi's wife and daughter, and Zhidu's wife and daughter, but because of the huge difference in status, the other party treats her respectfully, lest they offend her.As the days passed, she gradually felt that it was boring.

Girls are delicate and sensitive, and they can hide tightly when necessary.Chen Jiao knew very well that she had actually troubled this cousin by coming to Zhongshan Country. The cousin had done enough for her, and she must not push herself further, not to mention that she chose the road herself, and she had to go by herself if she didn't like it.Fortunately, I met Queen Bo.

Empress Bo is different from her. She has experienced too much and knows a lot. She has been to the peak and also to the trough. She has a special aura bred by time and experience around her.

She has a quiet and gentle personality, completely different from Princess Guantao.

When she was invited to visit Chen Jiao's small garden, Empress Bo taught her how to arrange flowers and pruning flower branches with scissors and a vase. This was another side of Empress Bo that Chen Jiao had never seen in Chang'an City.

The queen of Chang'an City wears gold and silver crowns, but her whole body looks like a clay sculpture.The current Empress Bo just had a wooden hairpin inserted, and the appearance of walking slowly among the flowers with flowers in her arms was a beauty Chen Jiao had never seen before.

Chen Jiao felt that Queen Bo was so pretty.

People are easily attracted to those who have qualities that they don't have. During the cultivation period of Empress Bo, Chen Jiao almost became Empress Bo's little tail, and began to imitate Empress Bo subconsciously with every frown and smile.

Empress Bo didn't have any children, and the eyes she looked at Chen Jiao gradually became soft, and seeing her imitate unconsciously, she also began to teach consciously.

She naturally knew about the bet between Chen Jiao and the prince, and she knew that it was difficult for her to learn the knowledge of competition, so she picked up the "idle book" to teach.

When Chen Jiao didn't even realize it, her life trajectory gradually went in another direction because of these books.

But this happened before, after Empress Bo lived in Lu Nu for a period of time, she went to the Bieyuan before winter, when Chen Jiao didn't go with her for unknown reasons.Now that she suddenly remembered, Xia Anran realized that she hadn't paid attention to her cousin's news for a long time!

What an irresponsible surrogate guardian I am!Xia Anran blamed herself a little.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, why not ask the girl what her plans are.

The little king did it when he thought of it, he stretched a little, and then asked Dou Wan: "I'm going to find Jiaojiao, does Awan want to go together?"

To Chen Jiao, Dou Wan is a foreigner. Of course, the relationship between men and women in the Western Han Dynasty is not so serious, but both of them are of marriageable age. Before that, Dou Wan tried to avoid seeing each other as much as possible.

Xia Anran originally only asked casually, but Dou Wan gave him a vague look, and got up to straighten his sleeves before going forward with him.

Huh?This is to be with him?

Seeing Dou Wan's expression, the little king suddenly became vigilant.

He took two quick steps, pressed Dou Wan's shoulder, and whispered, "Ah Wan, are you treating Jiaojiao..."

"No!" The boy replied firmly.

The little king carefully observed his facial expression, and nodded in satisfaction after a moment.Well, it's better not to.

He surpassed Dou Wan in three or two steps and walked in front of him, whispering as he walked: "Ah Wan, you are not suitable for Jiaojiao, according to Jiaojiao's personality, it is best to find a gentle and tolerant man for her."

Dou Wan's footsteps paused, he looked up at the young man who was walking forward with an upright expression, a cluster of sparks suddenly lit up in his eyes, and said softly: "Then according to what His Highness sees, how can Wan improve so that he Be gentle and tolerant?"

As soon as he said this, Xia Anran immediately turned her head to look at her, her docile almond eyes widened, and what was written in her big eyes were all big accusations - you still said that you are not for Jiaojiao!

Dou Wan slowly added under such gazes: "Wan is just curious, and I can't be praised by His Highness."

Xia Anran glanced at this person up and down, only seeing the word "sincerity" on his face, he was suspicious in his heart, but since Dou Wan had already said that, he couldn't hold on to it, so he reluctantly said: "Ah Wan, you are not bad on weekdays, but the way you wake people up is too rough."

"Wanting should be improved."

"And you laugh terribly sometimes."

"when?"

"Hmm... I can't remember it all at once. Anyway, girls with that kind of smile will be scared when they see it. Every time you smile like that, the female officer is scared away by you. You still have to control your expression."

"Wan as far as possible."

"And there's more..." The little king counted the shortcomings of his little friend with his fingers, and in the end he felt that he was a little unreasonable and picky, but Dou Wan listened patiently and reflected on himself the whole time.

The attitude couldn't have been better.

The little king lowered his voice as he spoke, he looked at Dou Wan smilingly at his face, sighed and patted the young man on the shoulder, rather old-fashioned, "Actually, Ah Wan, you're already doing well, you This type is quite pleasing to girls."

"My type?" Dou Wan tilted his head slightly, with a trace of pure curiosity in his eyes, "What kind?"

The little king recalled the adjectives he had accumulated, and found two relatively neutral adjectives among vocabulary such as loyal dog, young tame, blackened, counterattack, young, young and mature, "Well~mature and Reliable."

"What about Your Highness?" After receiving the answer, Dou Wan couldn't tell whether he was satisfied or not. Instead, he asked, "Is Your Highness the type to please girls?"

The little king was choked, he snapped his fingers, and recalled that he was the ruler of a country, strictly speaking, only Wei Ru had expressed that meaning.Wei Ru came to find him because he couldn't pay the tax due to helplessness.

Nothing else!

The little king's expression disappeared immediately. After pondering for a while with a blank face, he said with the pride of being a science student: "A man's achievements are not obtained from women."

To this, Dou Wan deeply agrees.

The little king felt that he had persuaded his little friend and successfully prevented a promising young man from falling into the abyss because he cared too much about his sister, so he happily got into the carriage and prepared to find Chen Jiao.

He went to Chen Jiao for this year's Chinese New Year.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, feudal lords would offer sacrifices to their ancestors and gods on their territory, and now that the entire model and regulations for the Chinese New Year had not yet been formalized, most of the people were just looking for an opportunity to eat and drink.

The new year is October after the autumn harvest, when the official farmers are the richest and most leisurely, and holding banquets at this time is the most popular.

Farmers usually thank God for their gifts at this time, and then use these products bestowed by God to report to God—figuratively speaking, they are handing in homework for praise.

In addition, winter is a difficult time for ordinary people. Before winter comes, take the time to have fun and make good memories, which is the meaning behind this festival.

But for the feudal king, this year has been much busier.

They also have to hand in their homework, but compared to ordinary people, they have to hand in their homework to many more people.

First of all, it must be handed over to "Heaven", secondly, it must be handed over to the ancestors, and finally, it must be handed over to the old man.Among them, the share given to the father is the most difficult to fool, and it needs to include the population growth, food growth, technical facility construction, etc. of the territory.

It doesn't matter if you say it, someone will come to investigate.

The investigation is the most troublesome, because if the investigation results do not match the facts, it is deception.In any era, bullying the emperor has no good results.

Xia Anran doesn't have to worry about handing in homework, because he always overplays, but he needs to worry about another issue.

Because in essence, most of Zhongshan’s population growth is based on poaching people’s corners, ahem, whether it’s teacher and student resources, medical artisan resources, or even labor resources.

Zhongshan country needs labor force, and can offer good price, the flow of people around will naturally flock to them.

This kind of floating population has not moved their household registration, but before he dug up the entire Mohist family in one go, and after experiments and mutual testing, many people from the farming family also moved here.

The peasant family and the Mohist family also brought novelists. In short, these populations were forcibly dug out of other people's household registration population.

One goes up and down the other, his grades are good, naturally some people will suffer, and this kind of disadvantage cannot be settled by sending a few silver coins.

These people sent by the sheriff and the vassal king are simply pitiful, as if their county will be rated as inferior if they have a few fewer people.

Xia Anran squinted her eyes to watch their performance, but in the end she still had to share a part of her profits, buying ore resources or agricultural products from the other party.

There is no way, if you want to get along on the road, you have to compromise if you have to compromise.And it’s only when we’re fattened up that we’re ready for the knife. The Party tells us we must follow the path of sustainable development.

"Zhongshan's domestic grain reserves are sufficient. Will Your Highness build another granary this winter?"

Dou Wan helped the man into the carriage, and sat at the front of the carriage to take over the work of driving.He swung his whip, and the sound of whipping exploded in mid-air, and the four steeds belonging to the feudal king immediately strode forward.

The little king showed a tangled expression when he heard the words: "Build it again? But there are already four in Zhongshan Country... Wouldn't it be too stale if it was built again..."

Now the effect of liquidation in Zhongshan Kingdom is remarkable, the domestic grain price is very stable, and the people also know that there is grain in the country, so they don't panic when they encounter disasters or accidents occasionally.

Because food prices are stable, relative vegetable prices are also relatively stable.After getting used to relatively cheap soy products as dishes, the people in Zhongshan can basically guarantee that there are vegetables and staple foods on the table.

In times of difficulty, buy some tofu and barley rice, cook it, and sprinkle some soy sauce, the taste is much better than before.

In the past few years, the weather has been generally smooth and there have been no major disasters. Coupled with the vigorous development of irrigation facilities and farming tools, the annual grain output of Zhongshan Country is basically stable, and it is rare to need to open warehouses to release grain.

Therefore, the old grain opened in the warehouse every year is finally sold to neighboring cities, but the price of the rice grain that has been stored for several years is not as good as the new rice. After adding the shipping cost, it is even more heartbreaking.

The neighbors around are very cunning now, seeing that what Zhongshan Kingdom is offering is old rice, they frantically lower the price.

The little king has also tried to sell domestically.

He originally thought that the people of Zhongshan would be more willing to use rice as their staple food after the food price became cheaper, but he found that the people did not buy it at all. They would rather save more money to buy cattle and open land, rather than eat something good now to live a happy life little days.

All of them are like hamsters storing food.

The spirit is very commendable, but it is not very friendly to the official.

Xia Anran sighed.

Now he has to purchase a large amount of surplus food in order to settle the protests of his neighbors against Zhongshan's desperate poaching of people.

Needless to say, these things will definitely impact the market of Zhongshan Country itself.In order to protect the local farmers, it is of course impossible for him to sell at a lower price, but if the price is slightly higher than that in Zhongshan, one is fresh and the other is not fresh due to long-distance transportation, and there is no advantage.

This is not modern, and there is a difference in species.

But if it is completely meaningless to store food, it seems that it will be a loss anyway.

Or transport it to the north to sell to the Huns?Well, let's wait for this to be decided. It's better for him not to touch the sensitive issue of food sales, so as not to ask for trouble.

"Ah Wan... Tell me, how about my wine making?"

The little king rubbed his chin and felt that this was more reliable. The most important thing was that the market for selling wine was huge and the profits were good.

"Think twice, Your Highness." Dou Wan persuaded softly, "Your Majesty doesn't like making wine."

Xia Anran was silent when she heard the words, indeed, Liu Qi didn't like wine, to be precise he didn't like the activity of wine making, of course he never said it clearly.

But no industrious king would have liked the business of brewing.

Because the process of brewing wine is bound to waste a lot of food.

But in fact, the wine of the Western Han Dynasty is the same as the modern happy fat house water, and its popularity rate is very high.Prohibition of alcohol has been done in almost every dynasty since the Zhou Dynasty, but they all ended in failure.

Because their prohibition against alcohol is mostly groups dominated by aristocratic families, and these talents are the main force of drinking.

But if you want to tell them the truth and say that wine making hurts food, they won't listen.In the end, when the matter of prohibition of alcohol came to the Western Han Dynasty, it could only become a pitiful situation where more than three people were punished for drinking without reason.

There is no way, even the mighty father of the first emperor can't ban it. In the end, he can only increase taxes on wine to limit its market and price. This also shows the prosperity of the wine industry.

But the more prosperous the industry, the more the people at the top will be scrutinized. This is an eternal truth.

The wine making industry is now basically monopolized in the hands of the rich, and the income from selling wine can easily make a fortune. The more you earn, the bigger the industry, and the bigger the industry, the higher the production capacity.

As for the instability of local food prices caused by their wanton purchase of food, the rich man doesn't care.

Who cares?Of course it's the government.

It's okay when nothing happens, but once there is a natural or man-made disaster, the local government must be anxious.But at that time, these hateful businessmen could move leisurely with their wealth, and no matter where their property went, local officials would not refuse them.

This is very irritating. If the culprit is provoked, he pats his ass and runs away. How can there be such a thing?

The status of merchants has risen sharply in the past two years because Emperor Jing wanted to conduct Han-Hungarian trade, and his attitude of connivance has soared. Even because the state has not interfered with their dress and travel requirements for a long time, merchants gradually began to travel in horse-drawn carriages or wear silk products.

Merchants already have a lot of money and a lot of relationships, and now there is no explicit restriction on their dress status, which naturally promotes the growth of the group of merchants.

As a logistics transit port, Zhongshan knows this better than anyone else.

The rapid development of business is not a good thing, especially when the level of folk education is not high and businessmen cannot bear social responsibilities.

But on the other hand, the commercial development of the Western Han Dynasty depends entirely on the attitude of the emperor. Now he can lift the merchants to the sky, and tomorrow he can demote the merchants to the ground.

Xia Anran understands his father, Liu Qi has dug a hole for the general business people, and now the superiors don't care whether it is acquiescence, the word "acquiescence" in this world is actually deceiving oneself and others.

If you do something that you are not allowed to do in the famous legal saying, then you will leave a lot of excuses for people. The word "passing over" can make these businessmen fall from heaven to hell overnight.

In order to avoid being too involved in the Zhongshan country, Xia Anran also reminded the businessmen in Zhongshan in private.

Smart people understand as soon as they say it, and Xia Anran will not remind those who don't understand or those who understand but are lucky.

There will never be a shortage of smart people in this world, but only those who know current affairs can be outstanding.

He can only point to the end, and whether he can understand what he means depends on one's understanding.

Xia Anran sat in the carriage and continued to think about the issue of wine making, "When the time comes, Zhongshan's wine will be exported as much as possible. Is it feasible to sell it to the Xiongnu?"

Dou Wan smiled slightly, "Your Highness said yes, of course it's fine."

With helplessness on the young man's face, he moved two steps forward and leaned against the front of the carriage. Dou Wan was sitting within his reach. He poked the young man's back, "Ah Wan, tell the truth."

Dou Wan turned his head sideways, with seriousness on his face, and his black eyes were surprisingly bright, "Wan Duan will not deceive His Highness."

Oh.

The little king retracted his fingers and felt that the fingertips were a little numb. He squeezed the fingertips, and for some reason he felt a little hot at the base of his ears, "Do you really think it's feasible?"

"If Your Highness is not doing it for profit or expanding sales, but just to solve the accumulation of grain, Wan thinks it's okay."

In other words, Dou Wan felt that it was not feasible for him to take the road of commercial wine making.

The little king rubbed his chin, thinking that he should listen to Dou Wan on this point.Hey, in order to stabilize the price of Zhongshan country, he is also worried, and his hair is almost graying.

Just as he was thinking, Dou Wan's car stopped, and Xia Anran was helped out of the carriage by him, but the two of them were turned away.

Chen Jiao is not in her compound, so where is she?

The concierge didn't dare to stop King Zhongshan, so he had no choice but to call out the butler. The butler didn't dare to fool King Zhongshan either. He couldn't resist the pressure, so he brought the little king to where Chen Jiao was.

Xia Anran stared blankly at the plaque, and finally realized after a while, pointing at this place with disbelief, "Jiao, is Jiaojiao inside?"

This is the school of Zhongshan Country, Xia Anran naturally did not advance to the level of opening a girls' school, so she said... "Jiaojiao changed into men's clothes and mixed in?"

Xia Anran tried her best to suppress her voice, and then managed to suppress the tone to a level that would not alarm others.

The housekeeper nodded, and said with some pride, "Master Weng passed the exam by himself."

Last year, Emperor Jing suddenly decreed that Chen Jiao was officially named Weng Lord, that is, Tangyi Weng Lord.

Wengzhu is generally the title of princes and princesses. Unlike princesses, when princesses get married, the emperor does not personally officiate the marriage, but Wengzhu can be married by his father. It is not surprising that Chen Jiao was named Wengzhu.

She is the daughter of the eldest princess Liu Xing, and Liu Xing's eldest princess is equivalent to a prince, so as her daughter, Chen Jiao can naturally be called Wengzhu, but being called Wengzhu and being canonized are two concepts.

The former has a certain commendatory meaning, while the latter deserves its name. The difference is probably the same as calling someone a certain prince in school, and he is really a certain prince.

"Get in?" Xia Anran was stunned, "Did she use her own name?"

The housekeeper coughed, "It's the name of Marquis Long Lu."

That's right, Long Luhou's name is also Chen Xun, and the pronunciation of Xun is similar to Jiao, so there is no need to think of a pseudonym anymore.

Haha, his sister is really smart.

The little king waved his hands expressionlessly, "Go and call her out, don't disturb others."

My sister is too courageous, what should I do?Can I have a beating?Xia Anran touched the palm of her hand, but finally gave up on this tempting idea.

"Your Highness, Mr. Weng is smart, Mr. Xueshe is strict in discipline, and nothing will happen." Dou Wan comforted.

However, the person he comforted didn't feel much better, "But Jiaojiao is a woman after all!"

He widened his eyes, and felt that although his sister had a bit of a tough temper, she was a girl after all. This academy was full of men. What if my sister was taken advantage of by others and had a psychological shadow?

Dou Wan hesitated to speak about his worried attitude.Just when he was secretly grinding the floor, he heard Yue Nan's voice clearly, "I'd like to see who has such a face, let me come and greet you personally!"

Xia Anran paused, turned her head silently, and met a pair of big panicked eyes.

He ground his teeth and spit out the words word by word: "Chen Jiao!"

Chen Jiao, who was caught at the scene, shrank her neck, and was about to speak, when another male voice said: "Brother Xu? Do you need help?"

Even though the man asked, he walked over without hesitation, and he still looked warily at Xia Anran.

The author has something to say:

Xia Miao: It's not my problem that no one pursues me, I think it's Shi Chen's fault!

Xia Miao: What's more, we science students all know that the status of a man depends on his own strength, not on the eyes of a girl.

Xia Miao: In fact, when I was studying, many little girls came to me. I used to be one of the girls who would scream when they saw it, but I was also very distressed when no one came to confess!

Xia Miao: What about the very enthusiastic Western Han that QAQ promised?What about the girl from the Western Han Dynasty who agreed to go for it?

Xia Miao: But it’s okay, I still have a hundred cubs... (Suddenly guilty)

Dou Wan: ... Heh.

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As a matter of fact, alcohol is prohibited in almost every era, except when there is no shortage of food.

Because wine will lose grain during the brewing process. Basically, the ratio of grain to wine is about 10:6. It is not obvious in a small amount of brewing, but the amount is considerable in a large amount of brewing. If you want to count it because of poor technology If it is ripe and spoiled, it will basically lose half of it.

Some people say that there is still fruit wine, most of the fruit wine is actually soaked in white wine, almost no fruit is completely fermented (it seems to be a wine) and fruit wine was used as a drink in ancient times.

If you want to go to a precious occasion, you need food and wine.

Cao Cao also banned alcohol in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It seems that it was ordered by Xun Yu. Take small gifts from others, and the ban was not lifted until the agriculture in my homeland recovered slightly.

But there is no way, the characteristic of successful people is to be able to balance their desires.

Too much to drink, the author will give you Amway (actually, I seem to have said it?)

Umenosu's grapefruit wine + soda water, almost 2/8 points, delicious!By the way, it's best to chill the soda water, it's super delicious.

Baihe's pomelo wine is also good, but Baihe's is sweeter.It must be mixed with water, the alcohol concentration of these two is about 10%, and you will be drunk if you drink it directly.

In fact, I suggest that the student party, before graduation, try their own drinking limit in their own homes.

Try all kinds of wine, different types of wine, people's upper and lower limits are different, let your parents remember for you, drink as much as you start to talk nonsense, and drink as much as you want.

After entering the society, it will be much safer to have a bottom line.

Of course, the society is not that scary, but there are many things that you know in your heart, and you can roughly know whether you have been drugged or what, the author still recommends—don’t accept alcohol for the sake of face.

Of course, the most convenient thing is to avoid drinking. Allergies are a good excuse, because you don’t know what you will say when you are drunk. The author has personally seen a colleague who successfully offended the leader after being drunk ==

Of course, nothing happened in the end, because the leader was also drunk.

But at the same time, if you want to climb up, you must be able to drink and be able to do business. This is also a culture. It is the same for state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign enterprises. You have to figure it out yourself.

Whoops, far away.

Chen Jiao has a brother named Chen Yu, pronounced jiao, the second tone.

So Miss Chen Jiaoxiao put on her brother's vest without hesitation.

By the way, many people came to verify the difference in thinking between men and women yesterday, hahahaha, and some people asked me how I got into the QD group. So I have to post to the background and change the ID, but the QD group owner is basically a man, although there is this rule...

Hey.