On the day of the winter solstice, before dawn, the gate of the Nambu Councilor's residence was wide open, with a four-wheeled carriage and six other ordinary carriages filled with tribute to be offered to Ulsan-kun. Next to the wagons were a dozen or so guards of the council house on miscellaneous horses.
Although the guards are riding a variety of inferior horses, one face with complacency, as if the latter day's losers drive on the BMW like a kind of Arthur. Dacheng area does not produce horses, all horses have to be bought from the field, and this time the air force's troop types, the most powerful is the cavalry, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming are well aware of this, so try to do everything possible to buy horses from the horse-producing areas, some of the bad quality of the miscellaneous horses to buy up very smoothly, but some robust steeds are not easy to get, because of the horse-producing vassals control is very strict, these vassals king a fear of the flow of the stallion, and the second do not want to increase the non-horse-producing vassals, and the horse-producing vassals, and the horse-producing vassals, and the horse-producing vassals. These lords are afraid of losing their stallions, and they don't want to increase the strength of the non-horse-producing lords.
There are not many Qin vassal states with good horses, only Zhao and the northernmost Yan have a large number of good horses, while Wu only has horses in the Northern Marquis Fiefdom, which is close to Zhao, and the Northern Marquis Fiefdom is not big, so the number of good horses is limited. The states that had horses, like Chu or Qi Lu, did not have good quality horses; they were just ordinary horses that could be used for walking and hauling goods, and were not worthy of being used as cavalry mounts.
In the vassal state border crossing, how many horses the merchants cross the crossing, and so on when they leave can only be this number, some clever merchants in order to bring the good horses out of the horse-producing countries, they secretly bribe the border crossing Huben, and on the return trip, they change the ordinary horse into a good horse to bring it out of the border, and the number of horses coming in and out of the crossing is the same, only the quality is changed, and merchants transport the good horses to the south port, and sell them at a high price to the governor's office, and earn a huge difference, and the two hundred or so horses in the South Port The two hundred or so good horses in Nambu were obtained in this way.
Zhao, the only two countries in Qin to produce good horses, the border control is very strict, businessmen want to use ordinary horses for good horses out of the country in the Zhao border is not feasible, the exchange of horses out of the country for the two countries on the border with the Yan Qilu, Qilu, the two countries of the border of the Huben officers are very corrupt, businessmen with money to get through the joints for the opening of the road of the South Port of the horse trade.
After doing business for a long time, some businessmen feel that the cost of ordinary horses for good horses is too large, they will increase the bribe to the border Huben officers, with cheap mules posing as miscellaneous horses into the country, the border Huben clerk to mules recorded as a horse, when the people see the questioning, but the border Huben invites a beating, until the questioner admitted that the mule is a horse to give up, so the people of the land of Qilu is commonly used to 'point to the mule as a horse' to metaphorically turn black and white, confuse right and wrong. Therefore, the people of the land of Qilu commonly used the idiom of 'pointing a mule as a horse' to compare the reversal of black and white, confusing right and wrong. The idiom of 'pointing a deer as a horse' in the twenty-first century was indirectly butterflied away by the two men of Zheng and Chu in this way.
Horses purchased by Nambu from all over the world, good horses are distributed to the cavalry, miscellaneous horses are equipped to the Valley Patrol, Nambu Governor's Office and the Security Bureau, and the lowest quality horses are used for transportation and freight. The horses ridden by the guards of the Nambu governor's residence are considered to be the best among the miscellaneous horses, and the mounts of the ordinary nobles in Dacheng are no better, which is why the guards are looking so proud of themselves.
The morning of the winter solstice temperature is extremely low, the wet pavement is frozen hard, the guards in front of the governor's house in Nambu are wearing and the latter-day clothes style is very similar, they wear a leather cap on their head, their feet stirrups with cotton boots, wearing a cotton jacket on the top, a sheepskin jacket on the outside, the hands wear rough and dry sheepskin gloves, the lower wearing a straight cotton pants, the knees set with leather knee pads, facing the low temperature of minus six, seven degrees, one and all do not feel the cold. What they were wearing was issued by the governor's office and did not require them to pay for it themselves.
The guards didn't wait long at the gate, Wei Qing and Huo Sihua were the first to lead their respective mounts out of the mansion, the two of them mounted their horses outside the mansion, and Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, both of them dressed in festive gowns, walked out of the gate side-by-side, and boarded the four-wheeled carriage.
The caravan in front of the governor's residence slowly drove out of Nambu village, at this time, the sky in the east was slightly white, Nambu village woke up from its slumber, and began to have human voices, the military camp in the northeast of the village blew the horn, it was the wake-up call of the soldiers, the soldiers woke up, they would have a morning exercise.
From the moment Jung Yuming got into the car, he put his face to the window and the back of his head to Chu Chao Hui.
"Yuming, still angry with me?" Chu Chao Hui grabbed Zheng Yuming's hand and rubbed it in his palm, Zheng Yuming couldn't even draw it back if he wanted to.
Zheng Yuming turned back and gave Chu Chao Hui a cross glance, continued to look away from the window, thinking of Su women later into his room to clean up, will find the bed stains and changed underwear, Zheng Yuming's face could not help but get hotter and hotter.
"Won't really be mad at me, right?" Chu Chaohui lifted Zheng Yuming's hand to his mouth and began to nibble on it.
"Let go!" Zheng Yuming tried to draw back his hand, but he was tightly pressed by Chu Chao Hui.
"Don't let go, I like this hand, like it a lot." Chu Chao Hui looked at Zheng Yuming with a smile as he nibbled, a double entendre in his words.
This morning Zheng Yuming woke up with a start and realized that he was hugged tightly by Chu Chao Hui, and one hand was still holding Chu Chao Hui's desire. It turned out that Chu Chao Hui grabbed his hand to make a vibrator. At Chu Chao Hui's insistence, both of them did back to the hand job early this morning.
"You..." Zheng Yuming's face turned even redder when Chu Chao Hui said that, and now Zheng Yuming's white and greasy face was as colorful as if it had been smeared with rouge.
Chu Chao Hui saw this, where can he still hold back, a drag Zheng Yuming into his arms, no head kissed up.
Four-wheeled carriage car outside the cold wind cold winter, the carriage is spring inside the warm spring, the two make out for a long time, Chu Chao Hui reluctantly let go of Zheng Yuming, immediately to participate in the wax festival, Chu Chao Hui can not make the two appearance messy.
"Yuming, I miss you so much." Chu Chao Hui murmured as he touched Jung Yuming's face.
"Chao Hui, me too." Zheng Yuming face feel Chu Chaohui palm callus, the heart can not help but a sour, he was busy in the south port livelihood and economic tired eyes green, in the valley training soldiers Chu Chaohui is not easier than him to where, Zheng Yuming remembered that the two have just been transported to the Great Qin, Chu Chaohui's palms are a little bit of callus is not there, two years less than the time, these hands in addition to practicing as hard as an iron plate, the palms and fingers of the extra callus at the thick also.
Zheng Yuming's rare true feelings, so that Chu Chao Hui heart ran through a hot current, he put Zheng Yuming tightly in his arms, his chin against Zheng Yuming's forehead, the two quietly embraced each other.
The road from Nambu to Houpo was very smooth, and the snow on it had been cleared away by Wu Ambassador's people, the four-wheeled carriage drove smoothly and quickly on it, when it went out of Houpo barrier, the road surface was not smooth, and the four-wheeled carriage also bumped up.
"This section of the road needs to be repaired by someone." Zheng Yuming pushed Chu Chao Hui away and sat up straight.
"It's impossible to count on Wei Shen, right?" Wei Shen's main focus was now on expanding the army, the paper mill had only just made a profit, and Wei Shen's financial budget was tight.
Zheng Yuming nodded, "A large part of this road is used by us in Nambu, so why don't we just pay for the repairs. This will send Wei Shen a favor, and also arrange for extra laborers to keep those people from being idle, which means that we can solve their living problems and also prevent them from starving and causing trouble."
At the end of last year, there was a great drought in the north central part of Qin, and winter came early, many vassal states suffered, some nobles of vassal states refused to reduce the tax, many peasants who had reduced their production did not even pay enough tax, not to mention food and clothing, and the land became a burden for them, and many peasants secretly deserted their homes, and fled to the outside world to look for a way to live. Nambu and Dacheng at the end of the year into a large number of refugees fleeing from taxes, now the fields are frozen, refugees can not reclaim the wasteland, Nambu and Dacheng industrial arrangements can not be so much labor, in order to make these life without a place for the refugees to live, Zheng Yuming, while the refugees to build a hut to stay, and at the same time, think of ways to engage in the infrastructural development of the Nambu, the arrangement of employment of these refugees to earn a meager wage in exchange for food and clothing, so that the refugees can live in peace and happiness, Zheng Yuming, the refugees can be a good place to stay, but also to make the refugees to live. Clothing, so that the refugees can be safe and sound through the cold winter. If the refugees are not properly resettled, it is hard to predict what the starving refugees will do when they gather more and face the threat to their lives.
"Or you have a way." Chu Chao Hui eyes on Zheng Yuming has full of appreciation, if he is allowed to do Zheng Yuming responsible for the livelihood economy, Chu Chao Hui think, he can do half as good as Zheng Yuming is good. On the contrary, Zheng Yuming such as change to train the army, the same is twice the effort.
"It's not really my way, those who know a bit about economics understand." Zheng Yuming was a little embarrassed by Chu Chao Hui's praise.
"I'd like to get you a bodyguard, and that bull is a good candidate."
"Big Bull is a Hercules, wouldn't it be better to go to the army?"
Chu Chaohui shook his head, "Da Niu can be a bodyguard, but not a good soldier."
"Why?" Zheng Yuming was surprised.
"That big bull is big and thick, his explosive power is scary, but his stamina is not, so it turns out that the other trick I want to win him in the competition is to consume his stamina." Chu Chao Hui had two sets of plans for dealing with the big bull in Wu Wangdu.
"Not bad, that big bull is not agile in its movements." Zheng Yuming nodded his head as he recalled the 'thud' sound of the big bull's walk.
Chu Chaohui thought of Da Niu slapping the stone plate with one palm, could not help but smile, "Being a soldier will not be a good soldier, but being a bodyguard is good, for one thing, the body is sturdy can help you block the arrows, and secondly, the hands are powerful can slap away the sneak attackers."
"Alright then, let's use Da Niu as a bodyguard, with that look of his, he can bluff people with his appearance alone." Zheng Yuming agreed to take in Da Niu as a personal bodyguard, now that the people coming and going from Nambu were starting to get complicated, he had to keep bodyguards close by to protect his safety. "That middle-aged man who came with Da Niu, what are your plans?"
"If that middle-aged man passes the inspection, I'm going to make great use of it." Chu Chao Hui has always wanted to establish an intelligence department like in the latter days, but apart from Yu Kui, there is no other candidate, after hearing Huang Zhong's self-introduction of traveling around two dozen vassal states, Chu Chao Hui moved his mind.
"Alas, how good it would be to have a few more talents like Yu Kui." Zheng Yuming once again lamented that Yu Kui's defection was something they were very lucky to have.
The attendants and servants of the Ulsan-kun's residence were busy all day with the wax festival, and Tian, the kitchen cook, was not permitted to go home until after the eleventh hour. When Tian left the Ulsan residence, he did not go back to his own mansion, but ran to the back door of an exquisite courtyard. He touched the back door, found that the back door is not plugged, but only hidden, can not help but feel a burst of excitement, today I can kiss again.
Tian cook touched the bounty in his arms, and could not help but begin to reverie, recently his sweetheart has become more and more tender to him, save up some more money, and make more effort in bed, his sweetheart may agree to become a pair of lang with him.