Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 869 Women’s Thoughts

Seeing that Mi Zhen didn't believe it, Lu Lingqi said, "What, you still want to wait?"

"If he dares to drag it on, I'll beat him for you."

Mi Zhen panicked, waved her hand and said: "How can any woman urge such a thing? Madam, please spare me."

Lu Lingqi snorted: "I used to think you were so straightforward, but now you are so indecisive!"

After hearing this, Mi Zhen said helplessly: "You don't know that when the young master came, he was not allowed to approach him because he was sick. I took a look at him from a distance in the small building and saw him lying on a stretcher with his cheeks sunken. I was scared to death."

"After that, I warned him every day, fearing that something would happen to him, and prayed for his safety all day long. If he really gets better, I would be willing to pay the price of not getting married for the rest of my life, and I am willing to do so."

"Now that your good fortune has improved, I'm afraid, so I don't dare to mention it anymore."

After hearing this, Lu Lingqi laughed and said: "It is said that there are many Buddhists in Xuzhou. I am afraid that the girl also thinks that this is the credit of God, and is she afraid of retribution?"

"Mr. Yuanhua cured your illness. If you want to thank him, you must thank him. As for the gods and Buddhas of Lao Shizi, we Bingzhou people don't believe much."

Mi Zhen said softly: "Actually, Madam, you are also hiding your clumsiness, right?"

"Madam clearly sees some things clearly, why do you keep saying that you only know about battle formations?"

Mi Zhen asked curiously: "Madam, you actually understand?"

"After all, the woman my husband likes is not an ordinary person."

"I still thought too little about the Mi family's slaves before. I'll think about it carefully when I get back."

Lu Lingqi said: "There are only two kinds. One is that if a soldier has a family, the husband will give him a courtyard in Jicheng or the surrounding villages and towns. There are two or three thatched houses in it, which are enough to accommodate his parents and wife. Of course, if you want a bigger one, you can There will be additional money, but it’s just a cost.”

After hearing this, Lu Lingqi immediately reacted, "What the girl said reminds me that it would be better for the girl and her husband to discuss this matter in person."

"This is the same as Cao Cao's farming system. Soldiers and their families have to sit together, so soldiers have deserters. Although my husband's Youzhou soldiers do not have such punishment, my husband has thought of countermeasures."

After hearing this, Lu Lingqi felt the same, "I went out to sea to mobilize troops, and encountered a wave that was only a few feet high. The seawater poured in, and the ship tipped toward the stairs. Things and people on the deck rolled around. Without being tied up with a rope, the person might fly into the sea the next moment."

Mi Zhen asked curiously: "What can I do?"

"If it's really so powerful, why haven't Bingzhou prayed for it when there have been disasters every year and people are dying of cold and starvation everywhere?"

"In this way, the soldiers will settle their families in Jicheng. Everything is convenient in the big city, and they can make a living doing handicrafts. The soldiers will have no worries and will naturally not run away again."

Lu Lingqi smiled and said: "What's so difficult to understand? I can't do anything else. I still know a lot about things on the battlefield. What the girl means is nothing more than ordinary people because their families are not in their hands. Those who don't have family members are also Or people with evil intentions who don't care about their families can easily become greedy in business, steal goods and become pirates, right?"

Mi Zhen said softly: "I admire the courage of Madam's people, but we maritime merchants are sometimes a little superstitious."

After hearing this, Mi Zhen exclaimed: "I see, this actually shows me an alternative way to recruit sailors without slaves."

Mi Zhen nodded, "So although doing business at sea is highly profitable, few people are willing to do it unless they are forced to the point of desperation."

"Madam may not know that when big waves come on the sea, the most terrifying waves can be more than ten feet high, and a ship of dozens of feet may capsize in an instant. At that time, the life and death on board are not in your own hands, you can only pray to God."

Lu Lingqi said: "The girl Bingxue is smart and much better than me. She will definitely be able to find a solution to both problems."

"Secondly, salaries will be paid on the first three days of every month without delay. Soldiers can use the money to support their families and have no worries. Naturally, their morale is very high."

"Most of the Mi family's previous trade routes were based on having slaves. But I heard that the envoy was trying to abolish slavery in Qingzhou. He probably didn't like slaves, but there were no such people. There was a shortage of people for merchants on the sea. Not to mention, it’s hard to say that people other than slaves are reliable.”

"In this case, no matter how high your martial arts skills are, it's useless. I can only say that you really have to resign yourself to fate."

"Madam, she almost became a queen. How can she only know how to fight and get into the harem?"

Lu Lingqi chuckled, "You are really smart, I can't hide it from you."

"My father," she said, her face dimming, "wanted me to marry that stupid son of Yuan Shu. He was afraid that I would be bullied in the past, so he asked Mr. Gongtai to teach me some calculation skills, but I was not interested. , I have dealt with it, but now that I think about it, I still learned too little.”

She looked at the autumn rain outside the window and sighed, "It's a pity that I can never see my father again." She then realized that Mi Zhen had also lost her parents and laughed at herself: "You see, my father is so powerful that he can't escape his husband." The curse."

Mi Zhen knew that Lu Lingqi was talking about the fact that the women Yuan Xi married were all orphans, and she felt that Lu Lingqi was really speaking out. She couldn't say anything, so she could only comfort her: "Life and death are fateful, just like on the sea, many things are... You can't help yourself, you can't change your destiny."

Lu Lingqi was silent and murmured: "Is there no way to change it?"

She came back to her senses immediately, shook her head and said, "No more, if you go down this road, there will be no turning back."

Seeing that it was almost time to eat, Lu Lingqi was about to get up and leave, but then her ears moved slightly, and through the rain and fog she heard the faint sound coming from the small building in the distance.

Her face turned red, indicating that she was recovering from her illness. You were in good spirits, so you sat down and said, "I won't go back at noon. Let's have a meal together."

Mi Zhen didn't know why, so she asked people to arrange meals. However, Lu Lingqi listened to the voice coming from the rain, but her heart was quite complicated. She also wanted to have a child, but in this case, she would have to leave Yuan Xi, which made her feel quite confused. Hard to decide.

But if there is no war in the past two years, it is not impossible to consider it. Lu Lingqi's eyes rolled when she thought of this.

The autumn rain outside the window did not last long, which was more than half an hour for a meal. As the light rain slowly stopped, the clouds opened and the fog dispersed. Lu Lingqi and Mi Zhen finished their meal, and the in-depth exchange in another small building had also ended. Towards the end.

Mrs. Du was frightened and whispered: "Husband, when the rain stops, people will come at any time, maybe at night?"

Yuan Xi thought to himself, you guessed it right, what he wants is this kind of excitement, but seeing that Mrs. Du can no longer support it, he can't go too far. As the clouds closed and the rain fell, the rain outside the window reluctantly stopped. , a ray of sunshine peeked out from the thick clouds, casting a warm light on the buildings in the mansion.

Mrs. Du was panting heavily. She rested for a while before she came back to her senses. She felt that her whole body was limp in Yuan Xi's arms. She was unable to sit up for a while, so she simply shrank in Yuan Xi's arms, feeling the long-lost warmth.

After a while, she finally said: "If you have time, please ask your husband to give the child a name."

Yuan Xi nodded and said: "Okay, this is my first daughter, let me think about it."

History was in chaos in his mind. If future generations were to judge this, Mrs. Du's first daughter might not have been Princess Jinxiang, right?

Yuan Xi suddenly remembered that there was information sent the day before yesterday saying that Cao Cao's original wife, Mrs. Ding, had a falling out with Cao Cao and returned to her hometown in Qiao County.

This makes Yuan Xi a little incredible. Although Qiao County is in Yuzhou, it is very close to the Huai River. If Yuan Xi is willing, he can send troops to cross the Huai River. Calculating the distance, the cavalry can reach Qiao County in a few days. Cao Cao Aren't you afraid of catching his wife yourself?

But Cao Cao could give up even Cao Song, but he didn't care about Mrs. Ding that much. He let thousands of cavalry die in battle for a woman. Maybe this was within the scope of Cao Cao's plan?
Yuan Xi immediately gave up the idea for the time being. Not to mention whether he could threaten Cao Cao, Cao Cao might be worried that he had no excuse to attack his family, and he might be waiting for him to fall into the trap?
To be fair, although Cao Cao carried out assassinations on Yuan Shao, Yuan Shang, and Yuan Xi, he seemed to have never done these things to his family members. Maybe it was because it was not easy to train a dead soldier, so it was not worth it?

There seems to be records in later generations. In Yuan Xi's memory, Cao Cao used Xu Shu's old mother to blackmail Xu Shu. He does not use this method now. Maybe it is because he knows that Yuan Xi's spies are not easy to mess with, so he does not want to confront Yuan Xi on this matter. Consumption?
What's more, besides Yecheng, there are two other women who are involved with him, making Cao Cao think that he doesn't really care about his female relatives, right?
Yuan Xi shook his head. No matter what, it is better to be cautious. It is difficult to guess people's thoughts. The only way to protect yourself is to not be afraid of assuming the worst possible malice.

A few days later, Zhuge Liang, who was in Qingzhou, received a letter from Yuan Xi. He read the letter several times, and then he thought about it and asked Yang Feng to come over.

Huang Yueying, who was sharpening her ink, said: "That Zhang Jiao's daughter is very scary. I always feel that when she looks at someone, she will violently kill someone the next moment."

Zhuge Liang laughed after hearing this and said: "You are good at describing people. I heard that she assassinated the lord several times before and almost killed him."

Huang Yueying asked curiously: "Then still keep her?"

"What do you think, you are not afraid that you have fallen in love with her?"

Zhuge Liang slapped Huang Yueying on the head, "What kind of nonsense have you been thinking about all day?"

He immediately said: "My Lord values ​​this person very much. I didn't quite understand the reason at first, but I gradually figured it out recently."

"The issue of Taiping Road is better to clear up than to block it. If it is not handled well, sooner or later there will be another Yellow Turban Rebellion."

"I guess what the lord wants to do is to let Confucianism and Confucianism coexist, restrict each other, and benefit each other."

Huang Yueying laughed after hearing this, "Integrating hundreds of schools of thought is not enough. Now there is a Taoist school, so you think you are a saint?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Don't say anything yet, your commander has said something."

"He alone cannot achieve sanctification, but thousands of people together may not be able to achieve sanctification."

"Although thousands of people have gone there, I am just trying to set a precedent, and I am satisfied."

(End of this chapter)