The delicacy of Wu cuisine had spread to the surrounding vassal states, and the cooks of some of the great nobles in Zhao began to learn Wu cooking. However, in Zhao Xuan's house, because of the head of the family's wary attitude towards Wu, he did not dare to change the cooking style, and the dishes were still boiled and roasted in the traditional way.
Zhao Xuan into the Wu, all the way to the Wu food have to understand, known Wu food practices fancy, auxiliary condiments, food flavor is also exceptionally delicious, even if there is an understanding of the feast on the fresh fruits, or let Zhao Xuan surprised a bit.
Villa yard fruit trees grafted in the valley and South Port large plantings, now is the lunar calendar in June, cherries and peach is on the market, grapes and apples, jujube is not yet ripe, the banquet put the fruit only cherries and peaches, in addition to the time and space of the fruit of the thin melon, thin melon in fact is the watermelon, it is said that Shennong tasted the hundred herbs on the discovery of the water because of the more meat is less will be named the watermelon.
The cherries and peaches on the table are the best fruits of the twenty-first century, and although the grapes are not ripe enough to be tasted, there is last year's wine to replace them, and the red-colored wine is served in large, transparent glass cups, and the look of it is just touchingly beautiful.
Dacheng is not far from Nangbu, after the avenue between the two cities was repaired, a fast horse can reach it in as little as forty minutes, Nangbu is near the Yangtze River, which is rich in fish, the fishermen improve their fishing nets and catch a lot of fish from the Yangtze River, half of the fish caught by the fishermen are sold in Nangbu, half are sold to Dacheng, and the people of Dacheng can eat fresh fish all year round. Various ways of eating fish in the twenty-first century were spread in the Ulsan area with the arrival of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui more than seven years ago. At the banquet that entertained Zhao Xuan, there were four ways of eating fish alone. In addition to the four ways of eating fish, there were also a variety of stir-fried dishes and soups and snacks.
Sitting chairs were already prevalent in the city of Dacheng, and the futons and tables in the county residence had been changed into tables and chairs. Zheng Yuming and Zhao Xuan sat side by side at the top, with other guests such as Bo Yao, Wu Mou, Yu Kui, and Kui Ji sitting on either side, flanked by a long table with reclining chairs behind it. Kui Ji, because of his status, was placed at the very end, farthest away from Zheng Yuming. Da Niu did not get on the table, he stood behind Zheng Yuming holding his arms, Zheng Yuming's feet lying on the bottom of the big wolf dog wood, wood early in the streets of Dacheng mixed full of dog belly, at this time will be the dog's head lying on his front paws squinting, but the wood's ears have been paying attention to the surrounding movements. Kui Ji eyeballed the distance between him and the top seat, and then looked at the tower-like bull, bigger than the wolf block of wood, extinguished the obsession in his heart, peace of mind to enjoy the food.
Although the food in front of Zhao Xuan was exquisite and delicious, he was not in the mood to enjoy it, and the fact that Zheng Yuming was not embarrassed and ashamed by him recognizing his identity made Zhao Xuan's heart feel resentful.
"Duke Ming lied to Zhao Xuan so bitterly, Zhao Xuan since the Qimen Mountain, the heart has always remembered Chu Yu, had sent several groups of people to Lu to look for it, but the result was disappointment every time." Zhao Xuan took a sip of red wine a bit forlornly.
Zheng Yuming glanced at Zhao Xuan, some slight apologies on his face, "Yuming didn't know that Your Highness would remember, causing Your Highness to go through the trouble of searching for it, Yuming here punishes himself with three cups of indemnity to thank you!"
After Zheng Yuming finished, he got up and poured three cups of wine and drank them all. Zhao Xuan saw Jung Yuming have reparation behavior, heart secretly happy, as long as Jung Yuming have guilt, using guilt Zhao Xuan want to get benefits from Wu.
"Since Mr. Ming has made amends, I guess he also considered Zhao Xuan a brother in Qimen Mountain, right?" Zhao Xuan looked at Zheng Yuming with anticipation in his eyes.
Zheng Yuming a little tangled, do not know how to answer Zhao Xuan, if in the twenty-first century, the banquet table drank three cups, as if it is already a life brother, just out of the hotel will return to the original. But in this time and space, brothers are not easy to recognize. But now Zhao Xuan so proposed, Zheng Yuming and can not directly refuse.
Seeing Zheng Yuming's hesitation, Zhao Xuan put down his cup and sighed heavily, "So it turns out that Your Excellency's concealment of his name is because he doesn't want to befriend Zhao Mou, which is wishful thinking on Zhao Xuan's part."
"Yuming is not this intention, just ......" Zheng Yuming wanted to say that when he was walking outside in order to facilitate the change of name.
"Your Excellency doesn't mean this, then you are treating Zhao Xuan as a brother." Zhao Xuan didn't wait for Zheng Yuming to finish his sentence, he grabbed Zheng Yuming's left hand tightly with one hand, and lifted the wine cup with the other hand, "Come on, cheers to you and me getting to know each other."
Zheng Yuming eyes hair blossom, as if to see the twenty-first century merchants at the table with his brother and brother to pay the price of the expression, Zhao Xuan and that merchant look too much like this self-cooked thick skin has a comparison.
"Eh, cheers!" Faced with Zhao Xuan's cheeky befriending, Zheng Yuming had no choice but to raise his cup to share a drink.
"The State of Zhao and the State of Wu are in close proximity and harmony, and you and I are as close as brothers, so we should always help each other out and share what we have." Zhao Xuan did not wait for the waiter beside him to come forward, and attentively filled up the wine cups of both of them.
Zheng Yuming was wary as he scrutinized Zhao Xuan with slightly narrowed eyes, "The Kingdom of Wu just suffered a great calamity four years ago, and now that it's in a state of disarray, Yuming still wants to ask Your Highness to help the Kingdom of Wu." Zheng Yuming's meaning was to reject Zhao Xuan reaching out to ask for something from Wu.
"Haha! Yudie is too modest, not to mention that Wu items are sold all over Great Qin, just the Wu gold dollars alone can make Great Qin's wealth roll in." Zhao Xuan laughed aloud, looking at Zheng Yuming with a sly look in his eyes.
"Yuming doesn't know what Your Highness means by that?" Zheng Yuming's heart shook.
Zhao Xuan got close to Zheng Yuming and lowered his voice: "Mister Zhao admires Yu Di so much! Yudi has made the Wu Yuan gold coins a trusted currency for merchants and great families, allowing gold coins heavier than Wu coins to flow in, Yudi is sitting at home and profiting!"
Zhao Xuan's mouth was very close to Zheng Yuming's ear, and when he spoke with a smile, from a distance, it looked as if he was saying intimate words, but these intimate words in the eyes of the onlookers made Zheng Yuming's heart set off shock waves.
When Zhao Xuan blocked the border, Zheng Yuming only regarded him as a somewhat intelligent ancient man, because he was the first to see through the dumping of goods in Wu, but now Zhao Xuan has seen the gold coins of Wu, and immediately saw through the hidden blood bowl behind the gold coins of Wu, the Qin gold coins are one-sixth heavier than the US dollar gold coins, but they are equal in value to the Wu dollar, and the melting of a gold Qin coin to make a US dollar again can be made into a tenth of a percent of the extra gold, excluding the labor and some other miscellaneous expenses. If a gold Qin coin is melted down and re-refined into a US dollar, it can produce one tenth of a percent more gold after labor and miscellaneous expenses, and if the surrounding vassal states exchange one US dollar with Wu, Wu will make a profit of eight to seven percent. The more Wu's currency is popularized, the more Wu will profit from it.
Zhao Xuan saw the shock in Zheng Yuming's eyes as he looked at himself and couldn't help but feel pleased that he had finally gotten one back from Zheng Yuming.
"Brother Bok's poverty will always make the world look at him sideways, my brother won't go around yelling about Yudie's method of amassing wealth, I just hope that Yudie can help Zhao a little bit." Zhao Xuan language with a threat, if Zheng Yuming does not agree to help the country of Zhao, Zhao Xuan will expose Zheng Yuming's method of enrichment with money banks and dollars.
Zheng Yuming stared closely at Zhao Xuan, trying to find the shadow of a modern man in Zhao Xuan. After a long time, a smile grew on Zheng Yuming's face as he took a sip of wine. "What does Your Highness want Yuming to help you with?"
Zhao Xuan looked at Zheng Yuming loosened his lips, and could not help but rejoice: "Zhao Mou wants to ......"
"The technique of gold coin casting cannot be outsourced." Zheng Yuming affirmed before Zhao Xuan could speak.
Zhao Xuan was disappointed, but he also knew that even if Zhao got the technology to mint money, without the money bank as a medium, Zhao's gold coins could not flow through Great Qin.
"Can Wu's farming and agricultural tools be passed on to Zhao? And the medicinal liquid for rice cultivation?" Zhao Xuan retreated.
"This ......" Zheng Yuming's heart is a relief, like the curved plow these improved agricultural tools, sooner or later will be circulated, Zhao Xuan want these agricultural tool styles, Zheng Yuming happy to be a good person, but a good person still have to have the benefits to do. "Your Highness, agricultural tools drawings can be unconditionally sent with, rice liquid secret formula is our country merchants do not spread the secret formula, Yuming can not give the secret formula, Zhao can only pay for the liquid, Yuming can only help Your Highness to obtain wholesale prices."
Production of insecticidal liquid factory is actually Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, Wu Da Holdings, insecticidal liquid only factory price, there is no wholesale price, Zheng Yuming said the factory price is the wholesale price.
Zhao Xuan was upset that he hadn't achieved all of his goals. "What about the art of papermaking?"
"If Your Highness is interested, Yuming can start a paper mill within Zhao, so that Zhao paper can be cheaper." Zheng Yuming proposed.
When Zhao Xuan heard it, he thought it was good, a paper mill opened in Zhao, sooner or later it would be Zhao's. Immediately and Zheng Yuming discussed the details. The more they discussed, the more opportunistic they became, and those who attended the banquet looked from afar and only saw the two men talking on their knees, laughing and being intimate.
Words are said more, wine is poured more, soon, Zheng Yuming and Zhao Xuan both have a reddish color on their faces, and both of them are talking more and more casually.
"Yudie, what kind of state policy do you think the county has to implement so that it will be strong in the future?"
Zheng Yuming, already half-drunk, waved his hand after hearing this, "There is no national policy that is perfect and can be implemented once and for all; national policies are contingent upon changes in the interest classes."
Zheng Yuming has always believed that it is not the construction of a good system first that creates an interest class; as history shows, whenever there is a change in the interest class that creates a system, that system will be stabilized.
"Class of interest?" Zhao Xuan was a bit puzzled.
Zheng Yuming looked up, saw the hair bunched on top of Zhao Xuan's head, and woke up to the fact that he wasn't in the twenty-first century, and that the person in front of him was the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Zhao, so what was the point of talking about class with a future monarch.
"I seem to be drunk." Jung Yuming shook his head.
Zheng Yuming was drunk yesterday, today the alcohol has not been fully eliminated, accompanied by Zhao Xuan a drink, cheeks and eyes slightly stained with red, stained with the flow of the eyes of the wine, but also handsome charm extraordinary.
Zhao Xuan's wine glass stopped at his lips as he looked dumbfounded. "Brother Ming, this time you and I met as brothers, we must get together."
"Well, tomorrow I will invite Your Highness to tour Ulsan!" Zheng Yuming nodded his head bashfully.
"Good! Tomorrow you and I brothers will travel to Ulsan together." Zhao Xuan promised, but his body was getting closer and closer to Zheng Yuming, and before he could get next to him, Zheng Yuming slumped onto the wine table at once.
"Your Highness Prince Zhao, my son is drunk, I'll help my son to leave first." A pair of large hands helped Zheng Yuming up and also helped Zheng Yuming away from Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan was annoyed in his heart, but he couldn't stop Da Niu from helping Zheng Yuming leave.
The next day Zheng Yuming is shaken awake by Da Niu and realizes that he had asked Zhao Xuan to tour Ulsan while he was drunk.
"Besides asking Jo Xuan to go to Ulsan, what else did I say?" Zheng Yuming asked Da Niu as he rubbed his eyes.
"You have to give Prince Zhao the drawings of agricultural tools, and you also have to sell him insecticidal liquid to open a paper mill in Zhao." Zheng Yuming and Zhao Xuan later spoke so low that only Da Niu, who was standing beside him, could hear them.
"No more?" Jung Yuming vaguely felt that he had said a lot.
"There are others that Big Bull can't understand." The bull replied with a straight face.
"Oh, I have an appointment with Jo Xuan when are we going to Ulsan?" Jung Yuming got up to get his clothes and get ready to take a shower.
"Your Excellency didn't set a time, Ma Ren sent guards to Ulsan early this morning to keep watch, and that Prince Zhao has already arrived at the county residence to wait."
Zheng Yuming heard, hurry to speed up the time to freshen up, after the bath and put on the clothes, will be the mini pistol in the waist, the pistol is Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui go out must bring weapons.
Zheng Yuming packed up and brought Da Niu and Mu Tou to meet Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan, accompanied by Yu Kui, had already had three cups of tea.
"Yuming's drinking power is still shallow, yesterday's drunken hospitality was not good, I hope Your Highness will bear with me." Zheng Yuming smiled and performed a meet and greet salute towards Zhao Xuan.
"Yudie can accompany my brother for a refreshing trip to Ulsan to make amends." Zhao Xuan looked at Zheng Yuming with intimacy in his eyes.
"This is as it should be." Zheng Yuming swept behind Zhao Xuan and realized that Zhao Xuan had only brought Bo Yao and Wu Mou with him. "Huh, where's that martial artist?"
Zhao Xuan frowned slightly, "Going on a trip to Ulsan is protected by Yu Di's men guards, so it's fine if that Kui Ji doesn't go."
Before Kui Ji followed Zhao Xuan to the county residence, he insisted on bringing his sword, saying that a swordsman's sword can't leave his body, and if he lets his weapon leave his body, he won't be a swordsman, and would rather stay in the post house. Zhao Xuan doesn't think Zheng Yuming will do anything against him, and if he goes to Ulsan with Zheng Yuming, he'll be protected by Zheng Yuming's men, so Kui Ji won't be much help, so since Kui Ji insists that he won't leave his weapon with him, Zhao Xuan will leave Kui Ji at the post house.
Two or three years after he was granted the fief of Ulsan, Gong Zi Guang began to select a site for his tomb in Ulsan, which was located just south of Dacheng. Ancient people did not shy away from death, they believed that there was a world after death, and they always planned for their afterlife as early as possible, and they started to build their tombs when they were young and healthy. Generally, the sons of princes and dukes were buried in their fiefs after death.
Duke Ziguang's mausoleum had just been repaired with steps into the mountain, and before he could dig the mountain to build the mausoleum room, he was poisoned by Yi Ji. Zheng Yuming used Duke Guang's last orders to crush Yi Ji and pacify the chaos. Although Duke Guang died, he was honored by the temple for his merits, and his coffin was buried in the mausoleum of the royal family of Wu, and the construction of his mausoleum in Ulsan was stopped.
Gong Ziguang in the Ulsan selected mausoleum status excellent scenery, halfway up the mountainside there is a waterfall, Zheng Yuming think those repaired stone steps up the mountain to stay in that waste is a pity, so they ordered people to build a few pavilions in the mountainside, for the Ulsan people to play on the mountain rest, waterfall pavilions has become the Ulsan a scenic spot. Zheng Yuming want to take Zhao Xuan to enjoy the place is that waterfall.
It was a Sunday, there were a lot of pedestrians visiting Ulsan, Ma Ren sent guards to clear the area of the waterfall, Ulsan travelers can only go to other places to play. Zheng Yuming and Zhao Xuan rode to the foot of the mountain and saw from afar that many tourists were stopped by the guards and diverted.
The wood that ran after Zheng Yuming's horse suddenly scurried toward the swimmers, and in a short time, four young men and women followed Ma Ren.
"My lord!" The one walking at the front was Huo Sihua, and behind her were Wei Kou, Yang He, and Fu Chou.
"Greetings, Your Excellency!" Wei Kou and Yang He and Fu Chou saluted Zheng Yuming one by one.
"So it's Sihua, you guys are here to swim in the waterfall too?" Zheng Yuming nodded towards the four.
"Your Excellency, student Yang He is practicing in Dacheng, and junior Fu Chou is practicing in Nangbu, today is Sunday, and I met the two schoolmates, so I met them and came to visit Mount Azure together." Yang He and Fu Chou three days ago came to Mount Azure, last night Yang He went to Nangbu to meet with Fu Chou, in Nangbu Street met Huo Sihua and Wei Kou, the four were familiar with each other, met very pleased, agreed to visit the waterfalls of the Azure Mountain on Sunday, but did not want to come to the Azure Mountain, the guards cleared the field, was stopped on the side of the path up the mountain, was trying to go elsewhere to play, was found by the wood, after the discovery of the horse Yan, and hastened to lead the four people to see Zheng Yuming.
"This is the Crown Prince of Zhao, come and greet the Crown Prince." Zheng Yuming introduced Zhao Xuan's identity.
Still led by Huo Sihua, the four of them respectfully bowed to Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan let the four get up while staring at Huo Sihua and sizing him up, Huo Sihua's talent had long spread throughout the Wu Kingdom, and Zhao Xuan knew quite a bit about Huo Sihua.
"Since we're here, let's tour Ulsan together." Zheng Yuming preferred Yang He, and he had big expectations for him.
"Aye! My lord." Huo Sihua and the four Yang He's agreed in unison.
"Yu Di, let's go ahead and leave them a few young people to slowly climb the mountain." Zhao Xuan didn't want to be crowded and only wanted to swim alone with Zheng Yuming.
"May." Zheng Yuming looked towards the mountain, there were guards at intervals on the way up the mountain, and the surrounding places had been searched once, this scenic spot was safe.
Zheng Yuming and Zhao Xuan leave the crowd behind, and the two of them join forces to climb the mountain, with only Da Niu following closely behind, and Woody stays with Huo Si Hua as two strangers appear beside him.
Ulsan is hot in June, but the mountains are shaded and cool, so it was fun to walk slowly down the stone steps, enjoying the mountain breeze blowing on the Buddha as the two of them chatted along the way.
"Ming Di, how about you and I go to the pavilion building to admire the waterfall." Zhao Xuan wanted to leave behind the follower Da Niu behind him and proposed that the two of them go to the pavilion building in front alone to talk.
Zheng Yuming took a look at the pavilion building, only seventy to eighty meters away from here, Da Niu stay here can also see the pavilion building movements, if anything happens, a moment can be rushed, they have a pistol on their body, not afraid of Zhao Xuan hands, immediately nodded his head and agreed: "Da Niu, you stay here."
The pavilion building is built on a rocky prominence, opposite the waterfall torrent down the water mist, so that the pavilion building seems to be hanging in the air.
"The view of Azure Mountain is quite good, Mister Zhao can't bear to leave as he lingers." Zhao Xuan stood between the pavilions, enjoying the magnificent view of the waterfalls cascading down.
"Yuming welcomes Your Highness to come to Azure Mountain as a guest often." Zheng Yuming secretly muttered in his heart, Zhao Xuan you can only come and sit as a guest, don't think you can become the Lord of Azure Mountain.
"The Kingdom of Zhao also has places with excellent scenery, Yu Di can go to the Kingdom of Zhao for a tour." Zhao Xuan offered an invitation.
"Yuming will definitely go if he has any free time." Zheng Yuming played polite.
Zheng Yuming is still dressed in white today, with black hair and plain clothes, red lips and white teeth, and the water mist behind him, it really looks like a handsome man who came down from the sky. Zhao Xuan began to look dumbfounded again.
"Yu Di, Zhao Mou since Qimen Mountain a goodbye ......"
"Watch out!"
Just as Zhao Xuan was about to tell Zheng Yuming how he felt about parting, Zheng Yuming suddenly pushed Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan stumbled, ears ringing sword whistling, turn around, only to see Kui Ji holding a sword whistling in the air, the sword pointed straight at Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming can not avoid. Zhao Xuan body reaction quickly, a kick to Kui Ji sword wrist, Kui Ji wrist by Zhao Xuan legs and feet swept to the sword head slightly biased, only stabbed into Zheng Yuming shoulder. Blood immediately seeped out of Zheng Yuming's shoulder.
Zheng Yuming 'ah' screamed and fell to the ground, his shoulder also because of a fall away from the head of the sword, Kui Ji raised his sword and stabbed again, Zhao Xuan's chain of legs kicked, Kui Ji could not continue, only to turn back to fight with Zhao Xuan first.
Zhao Xuan body without weapons, even if the martial arts is good, physical and Kui Ji sword Bo, has been at a disadvantage, coupled with the Kui Ji and people fighting from their own lives, only to eliminate the enemy for the sole purpose of Zhao Xuan so first care of their own encounter with the life-threatening, more constrained, legs and arms were Kui Ji sword cuts, gradually forced out of the pavilion building.
Da Niu saw the assassin appeared in the pavilion building, shouting to the pavilion building. Zhao Xuan endured the pain to the back side flip to pull away, Kui Ji saw the big bull has almost to Zhao Xuan side, know that now take Zhao Xuan's life is not very sure, and the pavilion building Zheng Yuming has no martial arts, to kill Zheng Yuming's grasp is greater, and immediately left Zhao Xuan, turn back to the pavilion building straight.
Zheng Yuming in Zhao Xuan and Kui Ji entanglement, has pulled out the waist pistol, but because Kui Ji and Zhao Xuan entanglement constantly change orientation, can not pull the trigger on the eye standard, now Kui Ji back to come, Zheng Yuming rejoice, this distance is the most suitable for the use of pistols. He aimed at Kui Ji is a gun, do not want to pull the trigger, the pistol did not respond.
Kui Ji although strange Zheng Yuming holding a small silver thing to himself point to point, hand sword stabbing Zheng Yuming's speed and force is still harsh, see Zheng Yuming is going to be stabbed by the sword, a brownish-yellow shadow scurrying in the air, a bite in the Kui Ji holding the sword's arm, stopping the sword to advance.
"Woody!" Zheng Yuming saw Kui Ji's palm strike at Woody's body, Woody still clenched and refused to let go of his mouth, anxiously worried about the life of his beloved dog, he suddenly figured out that he didn't turn on the safety of his pistol.
"Woody get out of the way!" Jung Yuming was sitting down on the ground, and he used the uninjured finger of his shoulder to turn on the safety and aim a shot at Kuihoshi.
"Bang!"
Quage had shrugged off the wood when he was shot, the force of the bullet into his body causing his body to lurch and feel like his abdomen was on fire. Puzzled, Quiggy took another step forward.
"Bang!" There was another thud, and Quiggy's body shook, haloing red at the shoulder where he held the sword.
"Demon magic!" Kui Ji nagged to himself as he used all his strength to throw the sword in his hand at Zheng Yuming, this last throw carrying Kui Ji's lifelong quest with great force.
Zheng Yuming saw the sword whistling, panicked and rolled over to avoid, narrowly avoided the sword, but found himself underneath an empty, there is no ground underneath him, only a white haze of water.