Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 367 The Changing Taoist (Fifth Watch)
Chapter 370 The Changing Taoist Priest

Empress Dong's deep cry made Ran Min wake up quickly.

Ran Min opened his eyes and saw that the corners of his wife Empress Dong's eyes were wet, and felt uncomfortable.He reached out and gently grabbed Queen Dong's hand.

Empress Dong was very surprised when she saw Ran Min wake up. In order not to worry Ran Min, Empress Dong wiped away her tears with her sleeve and said with a forced smile, "Your Majesty wakes up, do you want some tea?"

Empress Dong concealed it very well. If Ran Min hadn't discovered that Empress Dong was weeping silently, based on her current appearance, it would be impossible to tell that Empress Dong had ever cried.

The more so, the more distressed Ran Min was.

Ran Min said: "Jingjing, you have been busy all day, take a rest, you don't have to worry too much over there tomorrow, the Xie family in Chenjun is a rich family in the Jin Dynasty, and with the help of the Xie family, tomorrow will not Lost."

Even though Ran Min said so, he was very worried.Although Ran Ming did not report to him, Ran Min still learned that Jin Nu and Tie Nu were murdered by Chu Lianzi through the secret channel of "deaf and dumb", and almost died.

In fact, the situation in Jiankang City is far less peaceful than it appears on the surface.

However, Empress Dong was a little worried, not only worried about Ran Ming, but also about Ran Min.This stable day didn't last long, but Ran Min's health went from bad to worse.In order to take care of the country, Ran Min suffers from severe lack of sleep every day, sometimes for two hours, and at most three hours. The long-term lack of sleep has made Ran Min lose a lot of weight.

In order to prevent Ran Min from getting in the way, Empress Dong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, my concubine is not worried about Ming'er, but happy for him. Think about Ming'er, since she was 12 years old, she has been with us less often and more often. Not many, but he has always been very sensible. This son makes my concubine very happy."

Ran Min didn't speak, and gently put his arms around Empress Dong's shoulder.

The maids and eunuchs who were waiting around looked very winking, and without Ran Min's order, they quietly left the palace to give the two of them enough space.

Empress Dong leaned lightly on Ran Min's shoulder, her eyes turned red again, tears slipped down her cheeks, and she said after a long while: "It's not that I'm worrying about it, it's just that I can always think of Ming'er's appearance when I was a child these two days. In a blink of an eye, tomorrow is going to start a family and become a father! The concubine will also become a grandmother."

Although Ran Ming and the Xie family gave birth first before marriage, it was considered a great event in ancient times, but Empress Dong didn't think so. Enough to give her a name.Although Ran Ming is the second wife, the prince has nothing to show for it.

Earlier, Wang Zhi had given birth to a daughter for Ran Ming. Although she was a concubine, she was finally No.1 in the third generation of Ran Ming.

Ran Min also remembered how Ran Ming was when he was a child. He has always loved his second son very much. The second son is very similar to himself. He joined the army at the age of 12. He has always concealed his identity and is unwilling to accept his care.Especially no matter what kind of situation, what kind of danger, never lose confidence in yourself.

indomitable.There was a smile on Ran Min's face, perhaps this was something that Ran Zhi couldn't compare to, especially when Ran Ming started learning martial arts from him when he was five or six years old, and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and blood flowed from the fall. He never cried.Thinking of his son being smart and strong, Ran Minwu sighed for a while, and finally said in a low voice: "When the child is born, I will let the Eastern Jin Dynasty let Ran Xie and Ran Tiao go back to Beijing, let the daughters-in-law replace the son, and relax with the queen. .”

Empress Dong was very happy, but then she thought about it: "Children are the darlings of their parents, but is it a little unnatural to separate them when Minger becomes a father for the first time?"

Ran Min Zou raised his brows. Ran Ming was assassinated before, and Chu Suanzi had already touched his Ni Lin. This time, Tie Nu almost died, which made Ran Min almost run away.Ran Min said: "In fact, I want Ming'er to stop being the proton of Lao Shizi, and let him come back and live with us."

Empress Dong thought for a moment, then finally shook her head and said: "Now the people are tired of the war, if Ming'er is allowed to come back, the hat of instigating war will fall on Ming'er's head. How does His Majesty want Ming'er to behave in the future?"

Speaking of this matter, Ran Min was also very angry, and more disappointed with Ran Zhi.

Ran Min understands that after more than half a year of running-in, Wei State has basically stabilized internally, and now there are no internal worries, and external troubles are not a worry.If Ran Ming is withdrawn, the Jin Dynasty will never go to war with the Wei State because of this matter.

The balance of power between Wei and Jin had gradually shifted towards Wei, and the Jin Dynasty was actually more afraid of Wei provoking war.

However, in order to make Ran Zhi's position more stable, Ran Zhi's family of gentry, whenever Ran Min wanted to let Ran Ming come back, they would rise up against him.What is said that the king should put the world's society as the most important thing, and don't disregard the society for private affairs.

Ran Min secretly hated: "Do you really think I'm a fool? Can't you see through your pettiness?"

However, through this incident, Ran Min strengthened his determination to weaken the elites of the gentry.The state of Wei can have a big family, but it cannot have a family of nobles who put the imperial power above the imperial power.

Empress Dong leaned against Ran Min, and the two talked about the interesting things about Ran Ming's childhood, and praised his son's current prospects, they couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and they also talked about the character of their daughter-in-law, which was pretty good, they chatted until late at night. Only to rest.

In the fifth year of Yongxing in the Great Wei Dynasty, and April [-]th in the tenth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Chen Ying, Zhang Xun, Wang Cheng, Xue Tao and other Chinese business alliances entered Ran's mansion for a secret meeting at night.

The people discussed for four hours, and at dawn, they left Ran's mansion in high spirits.

Then Zhang Xun and Wang Cheng announced in a high-profile manner that Zhang Xun was authorized by Ran Ming to obtain the secret brewing recipe for Immortal Drunk.

Zhang Xun, Wang Cheng, and Chenjun Xie's joint venture built the world's largest immortal drunk brewery in Jiankang, which can be expected to produce 100 million catties of immortal drunk wine every year.

Liquor, due to different processes, the liquor yield is mostly in the range of 25-45%.

普通酒，按出酒率40%计算，也就是一斤粮食出4两65度白酒，相当于约7两37度白酒。 500毫升37度白酒重量在9.5两左右（模糊数学）。

The Immortal Drunk is equivalent to the [-]% wine of the later generations. In addition to the primitive craftsmanship, the yield rate of the Immortal Drunk is actually not too high. It takes two to three catties of grain to brew one catty of the Immortal Drunk.

Brewing 100 million catties of wine requires at least nearly 300 million catties of grain

The minds of the gentry in the Jin Dynasty became active, and food was needed for wine making, especially the 100 million jin Xianrenzui was a big food swallower.

Although it is said that businessmen seek profit, in fact, is it not the case for the elites of the gentry?Seeing Zhang Xun building such a large wine shop in Jiankang, they immediately felt that the opportunity had come.

In this era, most of the food is controlled by the noble family, even the grain merchants are under the shelter of the family.These elites of the gentry unanimously hoarded food and used it to seek huge benefits.

Different from the considerations of ordinary gentry, Chu Suanzi felt that what Zhang Xun did was unreasonable. You must know that immortal drunk is only expensive because it pioneered the brewing of baijiu. Stir the fairy drunk to a high price.Although Chu Suanzi has never done business, she also understands that monopoly is the real huge profit. If Xianrenzui is the same as ordinary Huadiao wine, rice wine, and rice wine, the price will definitely drop.

Although output increased, profits decreased instead.

Increase production, decrease profit.Chu Suanzi couldn't figure out that a shrewd businessman like Zhang Xun would do such a stupid thing.If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Although Chu Suanzi couldn't guess Zhang Xun's intentions, he guessed that Ran Ming was the person behind the incident.

Chu Suanzi felt something strange about this matter.In order to have a way to prevent and deal with Ran Ming's revenge, Chu Suanzi had no choice but to put all the last strength of the shadow group into monitoring Zhang Xun and others.

On April [-]th of the fifth year of Yongxing in the Great Wei Dynasty, the wedding shed in the front yard of Ran's Mansion in Jiankang Bell and Drum Tower had been set up, and Xu Mancang, the steward of the outer court, reported to Ran Ming: "All preparations for the wedding are complete."

Ran Ming responded silently, and the next step was to take the last step, Cui Zhuang was married.

Ran Ming had no elders in Jiankang, so he had no choice but to pull Ge Hong out to replace him.

Although it was not the day of formal marriage, many guests began to come to the door.In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and it took half a month to travel more than a thousand miles.The place is a bit remote, and Ran Ming didn't have many friends in the Jin Dynasty, but he couldn't stand Ge Hong, so he called most of his disciples and grandchildren.

In Ran Ming's new Taoist teachings, one of the functions of Taoist priests is to pray for the newlyweds and organize the wedding.In fact, even though Ran Ming was married once, he was still not very familiar with the ancient wedding process.After all, because of Liu Wei's status at that time, the wedding standard was not high.

Ran Ming originally wanted to copy a Western-style wedding and let Ge Hong act as the master of ceremonies. After hearing Ran Ming's plan, Ge Hong resolutely opposed it and shouted that it was not in line with the etiquette.

In the end, after several quarrels, Ran Ming was defeated by Ge Hong who was blowing his beard and staring. It wasn't that Ran Ming couldn't argue with Ge Hong.Ran Ming was afraid that if the old man got angry, it would be his fault.

Ran Ming took a step back and integrated his wedding into a four different images combining Chinese and Western.

Combining with ancient Chinese weddings, Ran Ming changed the carriage used to greet relatives at this time, and changed it to a sixteen-carrying sedan chair. As usual, Cui makeup was first, and then makeup was greeted.The only difference is that Taoist elements are added to the place of worship.

Although the Ran family belonged to the royal family of the Great Wei Dynasty, Ran Min was an orphan. He had neither elders nor uncles. Ran Ming could not go back to Yecheng to get married, and Ran Min could not come to Jiankang to attend Ran Ming's wedding in person. , perhaps the only regret of Ran Ming's wedding.

On April [-]th, seeing that Ran Ming was safe, Liu Mo returned from Dinghai.Because Liu Mo and Xie Daoyun are similar, they are nearly seven months pregnant.I'm afraid Liu Wei couldn't stand the bumpy carriage ride by land, and an accident would happen.In the end, Gao Shi dispatched a [-]-stone sea-going ship newly developed by Qingzhou, which is about [-] tons and can carry [-] people at the same time.

(End of this chapter)