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Chapter 709 Cao E's Poem

At the beginning of April, the branches of Sophora japonica are hanging all over.

On the litchi road, Zhang Wenjing, who rode with Li Xia, was still talking and laughing at Yanyan.

Although I also want to try my best to maintain the appearance of a lady, but this trip for four months is really very happy.

"Is that a lychee?"

"No, that should be Minoru Yama."

"Okay." Zhang Wenjing turned her head and looked around again, looking for traces of litchi.

She has never eaten it in her life, but she only knows that since Su Dongpo said, "If you eat three hundred lychees a day, you will grow up as a Lingnan native", it must be very delicious.

It's a pity that the lychees have to return to Hanzhong before they are ripe.

"I want to ask you, if I want to eat lychees when it's in season, can you also ask Kuaima to bring them to me?"

Li Xia said: "Although I can't let the fast horse send it, but next time we inspect the south of Shun, we can come out in summer instead."

"You're pretty good at talking." Zhang Wenjing leaned in his arms, looked up and smiled and said, "I'm just teasing you, I won't really embarrass you. If you become the emperor, don't force you to laugh for my concubine. , I want to be a virtuous concubine."

It's like a willful joke, with her cute thoughts in it.

This time back to Hanzhong, the two will get married.

Zhang Wenjing didn't want to embarrass Li Xia because of her status. After talking and laughing, she continued to point her fingers at the surrounding scenery, smiling sweetly.

……

On the sixth day of April, they returned to Hanzhong and ended their journey.

"I'm so tired."

In the boudoir, after Zhang Wenjing took a bath, she sat on a chair and Ren Yan'er wiped her hair, looked at Yuan Yan, and asked with a smile, "What is Sister Yuan busy with?"

"Draft a parallel prose, and then draft a vernacular, to spread the news of the opening of the Pingling county kings in various places, and to recruit capable people... Well, there are too many things to read."

Yuan Yan was sitting at the table writing, without turning his head, he said: "By the way, I have already made preparations for your marriage. I thought you would come back to get married in February."

"I thought I would come back after persuading a few local officials, but I found a good opportunity to take the Chongqing Mansion." Zhang Wenjing stretched out his hand, and Ren Feng'er rubbed her ointment, "When I was in the Chongqing Mansion, I wanted to tell him You don't need to go through a lot of trouble, just simply pray to the heaven and the earth, thinking maybe Fifth Brother will send someone, but is there anyone here?"

Yuan Yan didn't answer, but asked back with a joke.

"Simple obeisance to heaven and earth? Can't you restrain yourself when the love is strong?"

Zhang Wenjing was ashamed, her pretty face glowed, and she spat: "Sister Yuan, what are you talking about, you are still a female crown."

"Look at you, are you so happy?"

"Well, it's fun." Zhang Wenjing recalled the love and affection along the way, and her eyes became more and more radiant. "He said it was called 'love' before getting married. Hmm... falling in love is really interesting."

"Was it worth waiting for you for five years?"

"Well, no regrets."

"Hugh said this in front of the poor road. You are exhausted on the pommel horse. Go and rest when you are tired. I have to work for a while."

"Okay, I have to sleep well for two days...By the way, Fifth Brother didn't send anyone, did he?"

Yuan Yan stopped writing, nodded, and said: "This decision is difficult to make, why do you force them?"

Zhang Wenjing muttered, "Zhang Wulang doesn't know the heroes of the world."

After all, she was a little disappointed with this brother. Ever since she counted Li Xia's deeds, the feeling of admiration occupied her heart again, and finally covered her head, looking forward to the marriage...

~~
The plaque of Shuai's Mansion has been replaced with the four characters of "Pingling Prince's Mansion".

This has very different meanings for the Han and Taiwan shogunate, and even for the scholars in Sichuan, Shanxi, Longxi, and Dali.

The king of Pingling County opened a mansion to build teeth, and set up his own officials, which means that he can get the position of an official without having to be named on the gold list.

As for how much weight does the official have?
People with different visions seem to have different weights, but under the rule of Pingling County King, it is an official.

……

"Long history."

"Long history."

Han Chengxu walked slowly along the Qianya path, hearing this call along the way, his heart was full of emotion.

Entering the meeting hall, I saw that Li Xia had arrived, and personally stepped forward to help Han Chengxu sit down.

"Whether I should or not, I can still walk, and I can also sit. Please take the seat of the king of the county."

"It's been four months since I've been away this time, and everything in the rear has been hard for Mr. Han."

"It's not hard. Seeing that the county king has finally rectified his name, I'm happy, happy." Han Chengxu patted his knees and said: "One day, when the county king takes the Guide mansion, the old man will die in peace."

Li Xia hurriedly said: "Don't say that, Mr. Han will see me rule the world, serve as prime minister for ten years, and then take care of him for the rest of his life."

In the past, if he talked about his ambition of "unifying the world", although Li Xia would not be embarrassed, others would feel that it was far away.

Now say it again, but it is natural.

But it is obviously impossible to be prime minister for ten years. Han Chengxu sighed in his heart about life, old age, sickness and death in the world, and replied with a smile: "I look forward to that day."

"Since Mr. Yining went to Longxi to supervise the farming, today it's just me and Mr. Han discussing. Let's talk about the current internal affairs first. The next focus is on two things. One is currency and trade, and the other is attracting people."

"The king of the county hopes to use business travel to let the population and materials from the south of the Yangtze River flow into Sichuan and Shaanxi?"

"In this way, there is a foundation for accumulating strength."

Han Chengxu said with a smile: "To put it simply, tea goods go to the Western Regions and Tianzhu, trade horses, and return gold and silver. Gold and silver go to the Yangtze River and return with labor."

"That's exactly what I mean. In this process, we must also shape our coin reputation. Only by standing up can we double our strength to ten times or twenty times..."

For a long time, the general direction of internal affairs has been partially adjusted.

"When it comes to foreign affairs, they are divided into many directions. Guan Long must guard against Mongolia's counterattack. We don't know when the Khan battle will end. On the other hand, the soldiers are still training and farming for the time being..."

"I'm afraid the battle for the Mongolian Khan position will not be too fast, and there is another person who has the ambition to fight for the throne and is also paying attention to this matter."

"Has Li Fen sent an envoy?"

"Not yet. Mongolia has more information than us. He hasn't taken any action yet. It's probably because Kublai Khan hasn't gone far enough."

"How did Mr. Han predict it?"

"If Kublai Khan approaches Hara and Lin within a year, fights in one year, stabilizes the situation in Mobei in a year or two, and returns to rest in another year. The best time will be two years later, when the battle between Hara and Lin is the most intense , Kublai Khan’s money and food was also the most wasted.”

"Two years?"

Li Xia mused, "The terrain in Guanlong is different from that in Sichuan and Sichuan. The ambushes and defensive counterattacks that I used to be good at are not suitable..."

"Junwang." Han Chengxu asked: "Have you thought about how to subdue the Zhang family?"

"Difficult." Li Xia said: "The main difficulty is that there is Shi Tianze in the middle, and Zhang's family is based on Shuntian Road. Bozhou is just the frontier for Zhang Rou to attack Song Dynasty temporarily. In other words, Zhang's family is too far away from me. If you want to join me , will inevitably fall into the siege of princes from all over the world. They will not choose this way, and it is very rare to be able to 'secretly communicate with the song'."

"Dark communication song..."

Han Chengxu shook his head, and sighed: "If it was when Brother Meng was back then, it would not be difficult to secretly get through the music. But Kublai Khan's methods are much more powerful."

"I also noticed it." Li Xia said: "There is a very important difference, Mr. Han, do you remember? When we went north to Kaifeng, Shi Tianze clearly had a different intention."

"Shi Tianze must have had a secret conspiracy with Li Fen." Han Chengxu was very sure, and said: "I have talked with Yang Gong in detail. Shi Tianze was deeply involved in what happened back then."

"But in the past two years, I haven't noticed any changes in the historian."

"You mean... Kublai Khan completely subdued Shi Tianze?"

"The method is powerful."

Han Chengxu said: "I don't know how Zhang Rou will react to the news of the marriage between the county king and Miss Zhang, and what will Kublai Khan do to the Zhang family?"

Li Xia nodded, and pondered: "At times like this, Kublai Khan must be cautious."

After talking for a long time, Han Chengxu stroked his beard and said, "After talking about the internal and external affairs, the county king has to settle the family affairs."

"By September, Qiao'er will be eighteen years old. I want to marry her as my concubine... same as Wen Jing."

From Li Xia's own heart, with Wang Jue, it is easy to arrange for the wives and urinations in the family.

At that time, Gao Mingyue will be the concubine, Zhang Wenjing and Han Qiaoer will be the side concubines, and Nian'er and Tang An'an will invite you to become the wife of the county.

Maybe you need to ask the imperial court for a seal, but it doesn't matter.

The king of Pingling County counts.

This title is not important but very important. Nian'er and Tang An'an don't care much about it, but Zhang Wenjing and Han Qiaoer's family relationship requires this title.

Sure enough, Han Chengxu was overjoyed and stroked his beard endlessly.

"Okay, okay, the county king will settle the family affairs with peace of mind, and I will do my best for the rest..."

~~
Li Xia and Zhang Wenjing's wedding is scheduled for April [-]th.

Although I have only been back for a few days, because other affairs are arranged, it does not appear to be hasty.

As the wedding day drew closer, Zhang Wenjing became more and more worried about gains and losses.

On the morning of the thirteenth, she got up and looked at the bronze mirror, dazed.

"Didn't the eldest sister say that she wants ten miles of red makeup? Why don't you show it?" Yan'er asked while combing her hair.

"You don't have to be too ostentatious."

"Eldest sister..."

"Ok?"

Yan'er's face was flushed, she lowered her head and said nothing again, after a while she said: "Isn't the family really sending someone here?"

"Yes."

"Will the eldest sister be unhappy?"

Before Zhang Wenjing could answer, she suddenly saw Feng'er running in.

"Big sister, someone sent this, saying it's a letter from my natal family."

Zhang Wenjing quickly took the letter from Feng'er.

There is only one poem on paper.

……

"It's still filial to be a relative overnight. What if you are a man? How many heroes and generals in Jianghuai, the rich and fat family have turned against each other?"

~~
There is a small Cao'e Temple in Hanzhong City, which was built by a Hangzhou official when he took office in Hanzhong in the early years. It is near the Han River in the south of the city.

Cao E was a filial daughter in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to legend, her father Cao Xu drowned in the Shun River. At that time, Cao E was only 14 years old, crying along the river day and night.After seventeen days, he also threw himself into the river, and five days later, the body of his father surfaced, and this has been passed down as a myth.

Zhang Hongfan was sitting in the restaurant opposite Cao'e Temple, drinking a cup of tea.

Hanzhong tea is really good.

There are several newspapers on the table, which record various things.

About the brutal behavior of the Mongols in the north, the prices in the south of the Yangtze River, the skills of farming and weaving, the edicts of the Sichuan and Shaanxi government... all are miscellaneous.

There is also a story about Yue Fei's fight against the Jin Dynasty. There is a paragraph in every newspaper. Although he scolded the Kingdom of Jin, he also vaguely scolded Zhao Song for destroying the Great Wall, which is also interesting.

After seeing "Serialization Fifteen", Zhang Hongfan found that there was no follow-up, and was a little unhappy.

"It's appetizing."

Only then did he look at the rest of the latest newspaper and was taken aback for a moment.

"Pingling County King."

I couldn't help but sigh with emotion for Li Xia's methods.

I thought that he would become king, but I didn't expect it to be so fast.

With a "click", a snack was placed on the table.

Zhang Hongfan raised his head, looked at the guy, and said, "I didn't order it."

"Give it to the guest officer. The king of Pingling County has been awarded the title. The owner is very happy, and congratulates the guest officer who came to the store recently..."

Zhang Hongfan watched the happy man walk away, and took a piece of sugar cake into his mouth.

The elder sister's vision is really good.

But no way.

He came to pick up the elder sister.

This matter is not as difficult as Zhang Wulang said. He invited the elder sister to come out to meet and take him away.

Among the brothers and sisters, he is the closest in age to the eldest sister, and has the best relationship. I believe she can come out to meet, even if she is to persuade her elder brother to assist Li Xia...

Looking at the Cao'e Temple across the street, Zhang Wenjing has not yet been seen.

Suddenly, Zhang Hongfan turned his head, feeling faintly inappropriate.

Without hesitation, he quickly got up and rushed into the crowd.

Looking back again, I saw that there were more than [-] big men in ordinary attire who had surrounded several shops around Cao'e Temple...

　Today there is a leader who gave a reward, thank you, if you are not prepared, let’s add more tomorrow~~
　　
　
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