The slaves' mud houses were built at the junction of the twenty-first century mud and forest that was transported over, that is to say, the houses were built along the edge of the soccer field-sized teleportation area, and so on the built mud houses surrounded the villa, and then some high trees were transplanted around the villa, so that the people who entered the valley in the future couldn't see the villa, and so that it would attract less attention. The valley is not really a paradise, in addition to the gap in the passage can be entered, there are hunters can see from the surrounding mountain tops to see the face of the valley, the west side of the wooden boat can be disembarked from there. The valley has developed to a certain extent, there must be communication with the outside world, and the villa with a difference can only choose to hide.
Among the twenty-one slaves who came to the valley first, except for Papa Dajiang who was left in Nambu to help the village blacksmiths to improve the iron making process (the smelting technology of Chu is superior to that of Wu), the other twenty slaves, after living in the valley for a month, each and every one of them cherished the life in front of them very much, and this time, they were assigned by Chu Chaohui to watch over and help the craftsmen and the craftsmen's family members, and each of them appeared to be dutiful and conscientious.
Chu Chao Hui with Wei Qing stood at the courtyard gate all the time observing, waiting for them to consciously go back to the mud hut to rest after dinner, only then did he feel relieved to go back to the workers' kitchen in the courtyard to eat dinner, from here on out, the villa was divided into living areas for the five and the slaves.
Huo siblings and Wei Qing came to the valley for more than a month, their faces raised much more rosy, and their size drew a little taller. Now Huo Sihua will not only cook alone, but also learned to stir fry, Huo Sihua's age although there are nine years old, but not tall, looks only the height of the twenty-first century six or seven year old child, Huo Sihua stir fry in the stove, have to stand on a small bench to reach the height, Zheng Yuming went to the kitchen to see the little girl in a decent way in the cooking of dinner for them, the nose slightly sour, can not help but use his hand to touch the top of the girl's head, Huo Sihua's hair had just grown to cover her scalp.
"My lord!" Huo Si Hua looked up and smiled coyly towards Zheng Yuming.
"Si Hua is very capable!" Although Zheng Yuming was heartbroken, there was no way not to use child labor; the valley was short of manpower, and the children among the inmates would all have to do what they could in the valley in the future.
"Si Hua can do a lot of things." Huo Sihua was happy to get the compliment.
Today's dinner is cooked white rice, the iron pot is wild boar bones and tofu soup, Huo Sihua is mixing rabbit meat fried garlic, and after this dish is fried there is a fried green vegetable. Nowadays, the valley grinds tofu every day, and the tofu made is used as a dish, and the rest of the tofu dregs are made into cakes, and the dough cakes are rotated to the slaves as breakfast.
Huo Sihua is after all a nine year old child, cooking flavor than Zheng Yuming is a big section worse, but the people who eat dinner do not matter, no longer delicious than outside the valley taste better, now the villa seasoning than the outside world much more, but people outside the valley but even vegetable oil will not be extracted yet.
Zheng Yuming brought back a group of prisoners from Dacheng, had been stout slaves kicked a metamorphosis of the little milk dog wood, well-preserved scars and forget the pain, still did not remember the lesson, the courtyard door opened, will bravely rushed to the front of the prisoners to exercise their own duties, scared to take care of the wood responsible for the wood Huo Sihua wood from the ground into the arms of the sent back to the kitchen shut up.
Wood in a month ago by the stout slave kicked, the spirit of the gas wan for a few days before slowing down, Zheng Yuming during the day to go to Nambu have something to do, the wood can not see the master, and so Zheng Yuming night back to the valley, the wood is particularly attached, basically follow the feet of Zheng Yuming a step away.
After the evening meal, Woody went to sleep on the back of Zheng Yuming's feet, Woody did this so that he could keep up with his master at all times.
Zheng Chu two people did not go upstairs after dinner, each brewed a cup of green tea to sit and talk about things, the three children on the side to learn two people teach them ten Arabic numerals. In order to the children's eyes, the kitchen lit two pine torch, this torch is also very expensive, not many families of the common people to use, they are basically dark will go to bed, the dawn will get up.
"That Chen Meng is a character!" Chu Chao Hui sipped his tea while smoking a cigarette.
"Well, this Chen Meng is very pragmatic."
"This man will have to befriend more in the future."
"Ulsan-kun is quite generous, he's quite polite to you." The corners of Chu Chao Hui's mouth turned down slightly as he spoke of the Dar City Lord.
"Ulsan-kun is nice and loves the people." Zheng Yuming had a good impression of Gong Ziguang.
"Even if it's not bad, it's still a big slave owner, the nature can't be changed!" Chu Chao Hui raised an eyebrow.
"That can't be helped, it's the limitations of the times." Zheng Yuming spread his hands.
Chu Zhaohui spat out a mouthful of smoke, squinting at his companion from the smoke, listening to Zheng Yuming's experience in the past two days in Dacheng, he had an indescribable twinge in the bottom of his heart, that Ulsan Jun paid too much attention to Zheng Yuming. And the most let Chu Chaohui care, is the last time to go to the azure mountain gentleman house, he can not see any woman in the gentleman house, the azure mountain gentleman close to make the call of all male mute slaves.
The next day there is just light in the sky, the people in the valley get up, after breakfast, craftsmen and craftsmen's families on hand are assigned to tools to build a house for themselves, with a small family to build two mud huts, without a small family of two people, a combination of a room.
Chu Chao Hui from the prisoners chose a house built Gongsun craftsman as a leader, this Gongsun craftsman had participated in the royal palace palace construction, Chu Chao Hui's residential planning with him to understand, a week later, a dozen mud huts were erected around the villa, equipped with a public kitchen, public bathrooms, public toilets, toilet dug septic tanks, mud huts in front of the ditch dug, drilling two water wells.
The mud house was built, the smiths and their families had a place to board, Chu Chao Hui and let them go to the gap channel dug wider, so that the narrowest part of the gap can pass a mule cart, in the channel into the valley to install a wooden door, next to the wooden door to repair a post, the future night, here will be sent to the trust of the people on guard.
There is a wooden door to block, also not afraid of people outside the valley from the gap passage into the valley. After doing this, Chu Chao Hui led them to continue to cut down the forest, women are also the main labor force here, following the men to dig up the soil and open up the land, the children are also utilized, in the morning by Fan Jin to teach literacy, and in the afternoon get to pick up stones in the freshly opened fields, to the edge of the forest to pick up some firewood. Fan Jin, who was appointed as a teacher by Zheng Yuming, had only half a day as a teacher, and had to take a hoe to work in the second half of the day. Of all the people, only the witch doctor did not need to do any farming, and this witch doctor named Jiang Gui was assigned to go to the mountains every day to pick herbs.
While Chu Chao Hui was busy in the valley, Zheng Yuming was also busy in Nambu. The five families of craftsmen sent by Chen Meng and the Ulsan Monarch's House had already settled down in Nambu. The brick kiln in Nambu Village has already been built to start firing bricks. People in this time and space already know how to fire bricks and tiles, but the bricks and tiles fired are for the use of the aristocracy, and the common people rarely use these materials on the ground to build their houses. Nambu village brick kiln brick firing out, the first batch of bricks and tiles were used by Zheng Yuming to build a blacksmith workshop, said blacksmith workshop, in fact, is an iron factory, such as blast furnace built, is the iron and steel factory, now this iron and steel factory can only be called workshop, because now the blacksmiths can only produce a few agricultural tools.
Half a month later, Wu Mu came back, with two boats full of cotton and linen raw materials and two thousand gold back, two thousand gold is the textile factory's payment, the ship's raw materials is Wu Mu's earning. Wu Mu this time is to go to Chu to promote cloth, Nambu textile factory produced cloth quality is too good, even if it is the original embryo white cloth, a big merchant in Chu after seeing a mouthful of immediately eat, and Wu Mu booked the next batch. Wu Mu then took the payment return, can come back five days earlier, but this Wu Mu is a natural businessman, he learned that the Chu cotton and hemp raw materials cheaper than the price of Dacheng, and decisively purchased two ships back to the Nangbu and then sold to the Nangbu textile factory at the price of Dacheng.
Zheng Yuming, after realizing that Wu Mu was earning the difference in price from him, was not angry but pleased, and told Wu Mu to pay more attention to what Nambu needed in the future, and as long as the price was comparable, he would buy it.
Wu Mu handed over two thousand gold to Zheng Yuming, unloaded the goods, and then loaded the wooden boat full of cloth, not even return home a trip, it is going to go to Chu again to do business, Zheng Yuming looked at this want to money do not want to home businessman, surprised mouth open wide, no matter what time and space, what dynasty, businessmen profit-seeking nature is the same. Rush in Wu Mu before the boat, Zheng Yuming hastened to pull back, please Wu Mu to Chu's Qingzhuang two boat waste wine lees back, Zheng Yuming is ready to use the lees to make vinegar.
With the two thousand gold from the sale of cloth, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's hands were loosened a lot, and the two of them were able to do things a little bit more freely, Chu Chaohui ran a few times to Dacheng alone, and purchased some slaves from Dacheng and came back. Zheng Yuming guided the blacksmiths to make a curved plow, so that the villagers in Nangbu plowed a few acres of rice paddies, ready to sow rice seeds, the land around Nangbu will no longer be planted with beans, but mainly rice.
April started with a few spring rains, the temperature rose straight up, people took off their jackets and put on their singlets, and the trees all turned green within a few days, and the people of Dacheng, in a week, transitioned from winter to spring.
While spring is in full bloom in all parts of Dacheng, Ulsanjun's mansion is full of sadness, as news of Dacheng arrives one after another from the palace of the King of Wu, causing Ulsanjun and Wei Shen to be worried.
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After the May rain, it was a bit hot in Dacheng, but a soft and clear music came from the backyard of Ulsan Palace, and people passing by the wall of the Palace couldn't help but stop and listen to the music.
"Duke! Does Xin want to play it again?" Artist Xin had already repeated this konghou twice, and Gongzi Guang was still lost in thought as he reclined on the cushion.
"Oh, no need." Hearing Artist Xin's inquiry, Gong Ziguang looked up at the hourglass and realized that he was too distracted, and without realizing it, Artist Xin had already played for almost an hour.
"Is Xin playing can't attract Gongzi?" Xin's eyes were lowered, and her soft voice was filled with a sense of grievance, as the legend of Gong Ziguang's favoritism towards the governor of Nanbu, Zheng Yuming, was spreading throughout the Ulsan Palace, and the attendants looked at him with a sense of pity.
"Xin, you think too much, Xin's playing is like a heavenly immortal sound, light is not tired of hearing, light recently poor spirit, trance." Gong Ziguang heart has a wipe of apology, Xin play an hour of konghou will be very tired, looking at Xin face full of despondency, Gong Ziguang can not help but soft voice comfort.
Artist Xin's playing skills are superb, he played the Konghou music, sometimes issued a thick and deep bass, as if the sound of the ancient zither, sometimes issued a bright and clear treble, as if the guzheng in the "singing", and sometimes can be issued by the water murmuring sound of the harp, it is a very beautiful and moving music, when the public light the first time to appreciate the performance of artist Xin, listened to as if intoxicated, and since then three days without listening to Xin performance, the public light is a little bit of tea and rice. Since then, after three days of listening to Xin's konghou performance, Gong Ziguang has been a bit restless.
"What worries do you have, Your Excellency? Can Xin relieve your worries?" Xin was in a kneeling position when he played, at this time, his upper body straightened up and clasped his fists and bowed to Gongzi Guang, his face full of concern.
Gong Ziguang spleen see Xin full of sincerity, some words in his mouth will be off the mouth to say, but see Xin side of the musical instrument, Gong Ziguang can not help but laugh to himself, his own square is too messed up, actually want to tell the sorrows of an entertainer.
"Light has not been sleeping well recently and his spirits are low, the healer said that it is because of the change of seasons, and that it will get better after a while, so Xin does not need to worry."
"It's good that Gongzi is fine." Xin hung her head low, and there was reassurance in her voice, as if she was relaxed from the bottom of her heart after hearing that Gongzi Guang was fine.
A mute slave gently walked in, babbling and gesticulating to Gongzi Guang, the artist Xin next to him often contacted the mute slaves, and was able to roughly understand some of the body language of the mute slaves, and now at a glance at the mute slave's gesticulation, the artist Xin knew that it was Wei Shen who was about to come.
Sure enough, after the mute slave finished his comparison, Wei Shen's footsteps sounded outside the house.
"Xin see Sheriff Wei!" Artist Xin hurriedly climbed up after Wei Shen entered the door and bowed respectfully to Wei Shen.
"Gongzi!" Wei Shen first bowed to Gongzi Guang, then straightened up and faintly greeted Artist Xin, "Artist need not take much care."
"Your Excellency! Xin excuses himself." Artist Xin took one look at Wei Shen's frowning expression and knew that he had to take his leave. Xin had been by Gong Ziguang's side for two years, and knew the temperament of this actual ruler of Dacheng very well, if Wei Shen did not talk to Gong Ziguang about business, then there was no harm in being by Gong Ziguang's side by himself, if he had important matters to discuss, Wei Shen would look at himself with a very impatient gaze.
"Uh-huh!" Gong Ziguang nodded at Artist Xin, then waved his hand toward the door attendant, "Reward Artist Xin with fifty gold."
"Many thanks, Gongzi!" Artist Xin bent down to thank him, he was used to Gongzi Guang's rewards and did not have the surprise he had at the beginning.
After hearing Artist Xin's footsteps go away, Wei Shen knelt down and sat down on the side of Gongzi Guang's couch.
"My lord, don't worry too much, the Great King will not fail to abide by his ancestral rules."
"Father Wei, Father is favoring Ripple Ji nowadays, to the point where he can't tell right from wrong." Gong Ziguang's face was indignant, and after spending time with Wei Shen, Gong Ziguang's emotions were finally no longer suppressed.
"The throne of the entire Da Qin vassal state is passed on to the eldest, the great king knows very well in his heart that he will not risk universal condemnation to abolish the eldest and set up the youngest." Wei Shen comforted Gongzi Guang, the latest news from Wu Capital City, the Hussar General of Wu has openly expressed his support for Prince Zhao of Wu.
"Father is comatose now, and when Mother Consort was around, she was also favored, but she didn't cast a net over the Wei Clan." There was resentment in Gongzi Guang's voice. The King of Wu had the interests of the Kingdom of Wu at that time as his top priority, but now that he is old how come he only cares about his selfishness.
"The Great King was ambitious then." Wei Shen's face muscles twitched as he listened to Gong Ziguang talk about Wei, the pain of the entire Wei clan.
Wei Shen is actually after the royal family, he and Gong Ziguang's mother Wei Ji are the royal family of Wei, Wei is a small country between Chu and Wu, is a vassal state of Wu, more than twenty years ago, the king of Wu on the pretext that Wei to Wu tribute fooled around, sent troops to attack Wei, when the city was broken down, the king of Wei and the crown prince in the palace was killed, the royal family of Wei and the Wei nobility were all captured, the king of Wei's several young sons in the battle disappeared (in fact, was the king of Wu wrestled to death), Wei Shen and Wei Ji are Wei Shen and Wei Ji were cousins, both of them were side branches of the royal family. Gong Ziguang's mother was born beautiful and was taken into the harem by the King of Wu at a glance, because Wei Ji was favored, Wei Shen and Gong Ziguang's two maternal uncles were brought back to Wu by the King of Wu, while the other Wei royalty and aristocrats were sent to Dacheng. Nine years ago, Wei Shen escorted Gong Ziguang to the fengyi, only to find that the aristocrats who had been exiled to Dacheng in the first place were already almost dead. Wei Shen's wish to find helpers in Dacheng was defeated.
"That Ripple Ji, is nothing but a village woman, Father King even scolded the Crown Prince for her."
Wei Shen listened to Gong Ziguang's angry complaints, looked up at his own child that he had held up since he was a child, and let out a long sigh.
Wu's Crown Prince Zhao and Gong Ziguang did not share the same mother; Crown Prince Zhao was three years older than Gong Ziguang. Crown Prince Zhao's mother was more honorable than Wei Ji, the youngest daughter of the old King of Zhao, now the King of Zhao's own sister, and the Queen of Wu, who died of a blood clot after giving birth to Crown Prince Zhao.
When Wei Ji entered the palace, Prince Zhao was only two years old. When Wei Ji was alive, she took good care of Crown Prince Zhao, and Crown Prince Zhao was relatively close to Wei Ji at that time, but when Wei Ji passed away and Gong Ziguang came to the fiefdom, Crown Prince Zhao and Gong Ziguang gradually became distant. However, Crown Prince Zhao did not have any ill will towards Gong Ziguang, and when Crown Prince Zhao succeeded to the throne in the future, he would tolerate Gong Ziguang's living in the southern barbarians on the basis of the fact that Wei Ji took care of her.
If Gong Zi Zhao could not succeed the throne smoothly and let Ri Ji's reckoning play out, then Gong Zi Guang was in danger in Dacheng, and Ri Ji was the greatest suspect in the death of Gong Zi Guang's mother and the king's brother. Before her death, Wei Ji's idea begged the king of Wu to agree to let Wei Shen and her own two elder brothers send Gong Ziguang to the fengyi. Just after Gong Ziguang arrived at the fengyi, a funeral letter was sent from the king's palace of Wu, and Wei Ji's fragrance was lost seven days after her son left the capital city of Wu.
Ri Ji was a beautiful woman collected from the countryside by Jiang Dafu, a minister of the King of Wu, who raised her at home until she was sixteen and offered her to the King of Wu. Ri Ji was admitted to the palace when Gong Ziguang was five years old, and at that time, Wei Ji's second son, Ming, was just born. Ri Ji entered the palace and was very respectful and courteous in front of Wei Ji. The relationship between Ripple Ji and Wei Ji was peaceful, though not intimate. Five years later, Yi Ji's son Yong was born, Yi Ji Wei Ji attitude more and more respect, in front of the king of Wu is also more favored.
Gong Ziguang remembers very clearly, nine years ago he went to look for Wei Shen, to Wei Shen for him to solve the history books, back to Wei Ji palace evening meal time is a little late, once into the palace, only to see his six-year-old brother is rolling on the ground, Wei Ji beside the pale face and even yelled at the healer, and Ripple Ji is holding her pet piglet beside the horror.
The king's palace healers arrived and were unable to do anything, and Gong Ziguang's younger brother Ming died in his arms. Wei Ji could not bear the blow and fainted on the spot. The King of Wu arrives at the news and presses the healer on the cause of death of his third son Ming. The healer looks at Yi Ji and hesitates for a moment before saying that it was food poisoning, which was contracted after a late dinner.
Ri Ji once heard is food poisoning, on the spot on his knees crying and shouting injustice, the original dinner pots of seasonal dishes is Ri Ji sent, Ri Ji himself is consumed, and now the doctor said that Gong Zi Ming is food poisoning death, then she is the biggest suspect.
Facing the King of Wu's skeptical gaze, Ripple Ji argues that she also eats seasonal vegetables, and if the seasonal vegetables she sent are poisonous, then she herself will be poisoned. In order to prove her innocence to the King of Wu, Ripple Ji lets the piglet in her hand to eat the leftovers, and it turns out that the piglet eats the leftovers and still remains alive and kicking. Upon seeing this, the king of Wu was furious and ordered the execution of the healer on the spot. The king of Wu thought that the healer was incapable of saving the prince, and in order to shirk his responsibility, he even framed his favorite concubine, which was too abominable.
Wei Ji woke up with excessive grief and began to suffer from nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, knowing that she might not be able to recover from her illness. Looking at her eldest son, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, Wei Ji forced herself to endure the discomfort and dragged the king of Wu by the sleeve to request for her son's fief, saying that she wished to see her son get the fief as soon as possible. The king of Wu, learning that Wei Ji would not have long to go, and looking at the haggard but still beautiful face of Wei Ji, made an exception to the rule, and gave the fief to his second son. According to the old rule of the Qin vassal states, a prince would not be granted a fief until he was fifteen years old, but because of his mother's request, Duke Guang was granted the fief three years earlier, and he left the palace of the King of Wu three years earlier.
When a prince of a vassal state was granted land, he had to leave the capital city immediately to go to his own fief, and could only return to the capital city to pay homage later on by an imperial edict from the king.
Ripple Ji in Wei Ji after the death, howling, appearing sisterly love, the king's palace in tears, Ripple Ji and Wei Ji, Gong Zi Ming with food, has been able to prove her innocence, not to mention Ripple Ji also let her beloved pet piglet for her to do the testament, that piglet is Ripple Ji's most beloved, since the adoption of that piglet, Ripple Ji piglet than the son of all care, so much so that the king of Wu had laughed at Ripple Ji is a swine reincarnation. Ripple Ji in Wei Ji burial, in front of the king of Wu face crying, said the heart of mourning, hate can not go with Wei Ji to the Yellow Springs, but this body to stay to serve the king, can only let his beloved piglet instead of their own to accompany the Wei Ji, pleading with the king of Wu to allow her to put the piglet into Wei Ji mausoleum to accompany the burial.
The king of Wu was moved to hear, even called the virtuous consort, Wei Ji buried, Ripple Ji was appointed as a consort, in the harem of the vassals, ranked second only to the queen, Ripple Ji to the body of the folk girl, broke the rules of Wu women can not be appointed to the consort, Ripple Ji from then onwards, the only favor in the king of Wu.
After the Spring Festival this year, the King of Wu was infected with wind-cold, Yi Ji was not clothed, day and night, and Prince Zhao, from the King of Wu was sick, but he did not see him to go to the King of Wu to greet and visit, the King of Wu sent to summon, but the messenger heard the Prince's residence in the ancient music, the messenger inquired, the original Prince Zhao even in the Naji. The messenger was so shocked that he did not go to the crown prince's residence to summon him, but returned to the king's palace to report to the king of Wu.
King of Wu in the hospital bed heard, angry at once on the fainted, woke up even under three rebuke, counting Prince Zhao's unfiliality, the words of the intention to abrogate the throne.
These things happened in February, and by the time Gongziguang got the news sent out by the royal palace connections, it was the end of March, the day after Zheng Yuming offered the water cart.
Wei Shen got the news, immediately sent people on the capital city activities, Prince Zhao can not be abolished, if the Prince was abolished, Ripple Ji's next thorn in the side of Gong Ziguang, because the King of Wu and then favored Ripple Ji, but also can not change the rules of the throne to pass on the long, Ripple Ji after the Prince pulled down, as long as then take out the Gong Ziguang, her son Yong can be a rightful place on the throne.