"I, Chu Chaohui, see Your Excellency." Chu Chaohui's face was not hesitant when he saw Gongzi Guang salute.
"Chu Qing don't be polite, Zheng Qing said that Chu Qing went to help the natives on the other side of the river to settle the dispute, things are settled, right?" Gong Ziguang's face snapped.
"My Great Wu's reputation is far-reaching, the natives saw the flag of Ulsan and took the initiative to stop the strife, and after they reconciled, they even sent plowing oxen to my minister to express their gratitude." Chu Chao Hui replied lightly.
"You have done a good job, you should preach harmony with the southern barbarians." Gong Ziguang was glad that Chu Chao Hui raised the flag of Ulsan to the natives. He didn't know that Chu Chao Hui only let his soldiers raise the flag of the Ulsan King when he forcibly relocated the tribesmen who were allied with the Tiger Tribe.
Chu Chaohui didn't wait for Gongziguang's smile to disappear from his face, stepped forward to make a solemn salute, and said loudly, "I ask that Your Majesty not belittle yourself!"
Gong Ziguang froze, "Where did Chu Qing start with this?"
Zheng Yuming's mood became lighter from the time Chu Chao Hui came in, but looking at Chu Chao Hui's face and actions, his heart was uneasy again, and he was afraid that Chu Chao Hui would act disrespectfully in front of Gong Ziguang and make Gong Ziguang unable to get off the stage.
Chu Chaohui bowed to Gongzi Guang with both hands, his demeanor was grim: "Gongzi is the lord of a house, his honor is incomparable, the natives on the south bank of the Yangtze River just saw the flag of the prince and were willing to put down their disputes, so it can be seen that the prince is not only the high mountain among the people of the local Ulsan area, but also the mountain in the hearts of the natives that have never been enlightened, so how is it possible for such a prince to be more humble than the subjects of the territory? When I was waiting outside, I was shocked to hear your words, and my heart felt like a knife!"
"That was just a private joke." Gongzi Guang's face flushed red for a moment, as if he had been caught red-handed in the act of fornication.
Zheng Yuming stood next to very embarrassed, in his opinion, Chu Chao Hui said is not righteous, clearly is borrowed Gong Ziguang speak inappropriate in the lesson, this kind of lesson is also reasonable and justified, but the last sentence of the heart like a knife how? Could it be that when he heard Gong Ziguang pouring out his love for him, Chu Zhaohui was so hard that he was strangled by a knife?
Chu Chaohui suddenly 'plopped' and knelt down in front of Gong Ziguang: ''Gongzi, micro-minister and Zheng Di grew up together with deep feelings, after being exiled to Nanbu, they are even more dependent on each other, we brothers live and die together, no one can lose anyone, Gongzi's whispers, if they are spread out, they are going to put my Zheng Di in the If your whispers get out, you'll be putting my brother Zheng in danger. If the king finds out about this, I can only die to thank you for your love! If my brother is killed, how can I survive? Please have mercy on us!" The words of Gongzi Guang just now, not to mention the King of Wu will be angry when he heard, Wei Shen will also have a problem with Zheng Yuming if he knew, the rule of Great Qin relies on the identity. For the vassal who reverses his identity, the ruler of Great Qin will severely sanction him.
As soon as Zheng Yuming watched Chu Chao Hui's performance, he immediately understood Chu Chao Hui's intentions, today Chu Chao Hui was seizing on Gong Ziguang's loss of temper and not letting go, forcing Gong Ziguang to stay away from himself in the future.
"Yuming also asks the Duke to retract his earlier jest, there is no one in the land of Ulsan more honorable than the Duke! There is no one in the land of Wu who is more honorable than the Great King!" Zheng Yuming was ruthless and also followed Chu Chaohui to kneel down in front of Gong Ziguang.
Gong Ziguang's face grayed out, he looked at Zheng Yuming who was kneeling on the side of Chu Chao Hui, and felt that he was the one who had a heart like a knife: "The two love ministers please get up, the light just now jesting is very inappropriate, in the future, the light will not be out of line again."
Gongzi Guang finished, turned back and rushed to the door attendant warning, "Today's Councilor House of the only words, such as if the outgoing, this monarch will first give you the death penalty."
The two attendants waiting at the door were mute, and when they heard Gongziguang's warning, they fell to their knees babbling and trembling in fear.
After Duke Guang warned his personal attendant, he got up and took a carriage back to Dacheng. Chu Chao Hui thoughtfully sent Ma Ren, who was stationed at the military camp in Nangbu, to lead 300 soldiers to escort Duke Guang into Dacheng before returning. Since then, Duke Ziguang has not visited Nangbu.
"Are we counting this as bullying children?" Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui stood at the entrance of Nambu Village to watch the distant car drive away.
"Cut! There are kids in their early twenties?" Chu Chao Hui skimmed his mouth, fortunately Gong Ziguang was concerned about cultivating his body and mind, unlike Crown Prince Zhao who was as unpleasant as he was, if Gong Ziguang was the same goods as Crown Prince Zhao, he wouldn't have cooperated with Wei Shen, and would most likely bring Zheng Yuming back to find a piece of paradise, such as the Eagle Tribe on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
"Ugh, don't push people too far in the future, Gongzi Kuang is nice."
Gong Ziguang was really a junior in Zheng Yuming's eyes, who called him nearly thirty years old before he was teleported.
"Don't talk about others." Chu Chao Hui was not happy to talk about Gong Zi Guang anymore. "I have good news for you."
"What good news?" Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui from the village entrance back to the councilor's mansion is on foot, hear Chu Chao Hui excited tone, can not help but stop in their footsteps, the two people speak in the twenty-first century Mandarin, next to only the guards, do not worry about them being able to understand. However, Huo's siblings and Wei Qing, Su women in the villa to listen to the two men's Mandarin heard more, has been able to understand some.
"I found sulfur today."
"Ha! Not bad, there will be gunpowder in the future, where did you find the sulfur?" Zheng Yuming's eyes lit up, with powerful gunpowder to equip the army, Nambu and the valley would be safer in the future.
"It was purchased from the port vendor, who said that the alpine natives had placed it with him to sell on their behalf, and I estimate that there are volcanic craters where the alpine natives live, and I have sent men to crouch at the vendor's place, and when we find the alpine natives, we will obtain a great deal of sulphur later on."
"Is the pricing of the sulfur consigned by the alpine natives expensive?" Zheng Yuming silently yarded the cost of manufacturing gunpowder in his mind.
Chu Chao Hui glanced at Zheng Yuming who was frowning and calculating, knowing that Zheng Yuming was trying to implement normal trade with the alpine natives.
"The price is still moderate." If the alpine natives sold sulfur at too high a price, Chu Chao Hui would have the army go and reprice it with them.
As they spoke, the two walked into the councilor's mansion, and Su woman came over from the corridor: "My lord, dinner has been prepared, should we start the banquet now?"
"Okay, you go set up the banquet." Zheng Yuming nodded towards Su Woman and waited for Su Woman to leave before he smiled and sold his work to Chu Chao Hui, "Knowing that you will be back today, I made someone go to the port side in the morning to buy the sturgeon that you like to eat."
"Good, you're all set, we're going to have a good meal tonight."
Chu Chao Hui eyes narrowed, Su women are usually in the valley, today Zheng Yuming brought Su women to the councilor's house, and let people buy the fish he likes to eat, is obviously calculated that he will first disembarked in the south port, visible lover is as much as their own miss, if it is in the twenty-first century, this is the lover's business trip back to get together for a candlelight dinner.
Thinking of a romantic candlelight dinner, Chu Chao Hui rubbed his fists, what he said to eat a good meal contains two layers of meaning, Zheng Yuming just understood the literal meaning. However, when eating dinner, Chu Chao Hui can only follow the literal meaning of the word, good to eat a dinner. Because that night, not two people alone to eat dinner, there are Wu Da and other stewards to participate, they are because of the driving of Gong Ziguang, can only have been waiting in the compartment, wait for Gong Ziguang to leave and then report to Zheng Yuming, Gong Ziguang left when it was already evening, Zheng Yuming can not be dealt with in a short period of time to finish the matter, so they entertained Wu Da and the stewards in the Councilor's House to eat a working meal, wait for a working meal to finish and then begin to report.
After eating the so-called candlelight dinner (after arriving at Great Qin, lighting is candles and torches in addition to kerosene lamps), Chu Chao Hui went back to his room alone to rest, while Zheng Yuming went to deal with the official business delayed by Gong Zi Guang, and by the time he finished dealing with the reports from the stewards and distributing the plowing oxen that had been brought back from the north coast, the sky had already dawned.
"Chaohui, yell at me to get up in three hours, I have to go to the east of the village this morning to direct the refugees to open the aqueduct." Zheng Yuming yawned and climbed towards the bed, not noticing Chu Chaohui's mournful eyes at all.
"Why do you have to go to everything yourself?" Chu Chao Hui helped Zheng Yuming take off his outerwear, and in the process, he cupped his waist with his hand.
"It can't be helped, the few disciples that were taught are still half-tuned, if I don't go and guide them, the aqueducts they open will always have hidden dangers." Zheng Yuming took off his clothes, rolled towards the inner bed, the quilt was pulled towards his body, and immediately went to be good neighbors with Zhou Gong.
Chu Chao Hui held up his hand, staring blankly at his lover lying on the bed, who had already issued a slight snore, and sighed helplessly, another good night to see and eat.
The guards who squatted at the gate of Wei Cargo Lang guarded the natives of the high mountains after five days; these natives lived in the Pan Yun Mountain on the opposite bank of the long river in Chu Di, and there was a smoldering volcanic pit in the high mountains of Pan Yun, from the rim of which the natives of the high mountains obtained their sulphur.
Snakes and bugs avoid anything irritating, and the sulfur around the volcanic crater gave off an irritating odor that made the snakes and bugs extinct. After discovering this phenomenon, the alpine natives picked up the strange-smelling stones to drive away the snakes and bugs, and found that the effect was good, so they traded it with the outside world as a snake-repellent medicine in exchange for their possessions.
It turns out that the high mountain tribe trading object are the Chu land civilians, Chu land civilians are not rich, and with the high mountain indigenous trading volume is not big, high mountain indigenous profit is not much, a year ago Chu land grain harvest, not only the sulfur trading volume shrinks, even the animal skin can not be traded out, the high mountain indigenous patriarch heard a merchant said that the Wu land south of the port of the rich, and then brought the goods to the south of the port of the trade.
Chu Chao Hui learned that the high mountain natives are located in the south of Chu, rested the idea of armed seizure, once again offered a win-win stick, and the high mountain tribal leaders set up a trade agreement, the high mountain tribe's animal skins and sulfur by the valley and the south port package, the price is slightly higher than the price of the Chu people. After the Gaoshan natives got a fixed sales channel, the whole tribe rejoiced, in addition to hunting more actively, also do not mind the mountain steep climbing hard, in addition to not hunting the strong man will go to pick sulfur, women will also climb the mountain once a day, to the side of the pit of the volcano with a bamboo basket to carry back to the sulfur ore. Soon, Chu Chao Hui had enough sulfur in his hands.
After April, the valley and Nambu appeared a strange scene, thatched pits, pig and cow bar house, housing, courtyard corners of the old wall, and not easy to be washed by the water, the soldiers dug clean, and thatched pits and pig and cow bar house of these each other, after a period of time, the soldiers have to come to visit once, and in the end not only in the valley and the south of the port digging, but also to the back slope of the digging, and even pay money to the surrounding villages to buy these mud. Nambu village too many strange moves, this kind of buy stink mud move did not cause people to pay special attention to, just as the soldiers bought to go is to fertilize the field.
Thatched pits, pig and cow bar house, housing, courtyard of the old wall corner, and not easy to be washed by the water in the place of the soil is nitrate, will be nitrate of soil, fumu ash were crushed and mixed into the soaking filter, with hot water added to the soaking filter in the drenching soaked boiled nitrate, the use of recrystallization can be obtained from the purer potassium nitrate, so far, the three main ingredients of gunpowder potassium nitrate, sulfur, charcoal complete.