Destiny Only Han

Chapter 875 Liu Ying: Taunt me?

The second day of April (Meng Xia) in the fifth year of the Great Sage.

At the eastern foot of Taishan Mountain, the red sun hangs high, and there is no cloud for thousands of miles.

In the row upon row of tents in the far distance, there is the faint sound of silk and bamboo drum music, and the low-pitched singing of female singers. The sense of sight of a peaceful and prosperous world is in stark contrast to the busy farmers fighting drought in the surrounding fields.

The farmer's heart is boiling like soup, and the son and grandson shake the fan.

Liu Ying walked out of the tent, looked up at the sky, her good mood was instantly wiped out by the sunny weather.

"It looks like it won't rain again today."

He murmured softly, got on his horse, and galloped into the queue that had been waiting for a long time in the distance.

Zhang Buyi rode over to greet him, frowning and complaining: "It's finally out, all the flowers I've been waiting for are gone!"

Liu Ying pretended not to hear, and asked to herself, "What are your plans for today?"

Zhang Buyi spread his hands: "What else can I have, let's go hunting..."

Liu Ying was a little helpless: "It's been three days in a row, can't there be something new?"

Zhang Buyi frowned: "New ideas? Then tell me, what else can people do in this wilderness if they don't hunt?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "I just didn't think it through, so I asked if you have any other arrangements..."

Zhang Buyi also shook his head: "It's less than ten days before Feng Chan, that is, the summer solstice, and there is no time to do anything else now! Besides, the sons of the princes of Gonghou gathered here just to give you a better life." Show your face in front of me, if you don’t go, won’t you?”

It is because of this that I am so annoyed to death... Liu Ying sighed, but still sat on the horse and jolted towards the royal hunting ground in the distance.

Well, it is said to be the royal hunting ground, but it is actually an open space near the mountains and forests around the Taishan Palace.

The Han Dynasty is a feudal dynasty, and the royal palace should naturally have the dignity of a royal palace, except for those guards and palace guards who can use the idle land to make some extra money, even if the remaining land is abandoned, they will not allow nearby people to cross the border farming.

Although the turn of spring and summer is the breeding and mating season of wild animals, the government prohibits the common people from hunting in the mountains, but this prohibition obviously does not apply to the rich and powerful.

Especially the emperor.

But the more important reason is that the roe deer and fox rabbits in the royal hunting ground are not purely wild, but semi-wild animals bought by the Shaofu from other places and released here in the mountains and forests.

Therefore, the dignitaries urged Liu Ying to hold the "Xia Miao" here under the banner of "practicing bow and horse". The gang of censors who make a living by picking people's thorns also kept silent, but made some memorials to impeach the kings and have a banquet Luxurious...

Well, 'Xia Miao' refers to the hunting activities carried out by the monarch in summer, and corresponds to 'chunsou (sōu)' in spring, 'qiǎn (xiǎn)' in autumn, and 'winter hunting' in winter.

These titles have existed as early as in "Zuo Zhuan", and the corresponding etiquette process can also be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty.

But no matter how interesting the game is, it will also get boring if you play too much.

Especially the purpose of the participants is mostly impure...

Liu Ying really enjoyed the kind of star-studded, everyone surrounded him and boasted about his environment, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with those people trying to show themselves in front of him and try to attract his attention.

Therefore, his annoyance with this hunting that lasted for many days was that according to the etiquette system, the prey he got was food, and he could eat whatever he caught!
This is about to kill me...

The taste of wild animals is actually very bad, especially those large herbivores such as roe deer and elk that mainly eat weeds and wild fruits without artificial fattening and castration in advance, not only have a natural fishy smell, but also because of the amount of exercise It is very large, resulting in extremely low intermuscular fat content. Even if it is stewed for a long time, if you want to eat a full meal, you need a pair of good teeth to bite off the thick and hard shredded meat.

The important thing is, Seya!
Every shredded meat can find its own gap between the teeth!

Therefore, this is also the reason why Liu Bang would rather live with Lu Zhi in the palace than come here to join in the fun...

Without him, the teeth in this old man's mouth are about to fall out...

Xu Shi saw Liu Ying's embarrassment, so Zhang Buyi rode close to Liu Ying, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, those old men can't take it anymore, I heard that they bought hundreds of heads of salt all night. Tan sheep were brought in quietly, preparing to pretend to be prey..."

"Salt flat sheep?" Liu Ying scratched her head.

He has heard of Tan sheep, which is a kind of sheep raised in Beidi County (Ningxia area), which belongs to a branch of Mongolian sheep.

But what the hell is a salt flat sheep?

Zhang Buyi didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "You really don't know?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "Why do I want to know?"

Hearing that Liu Ying changed her self-proclaimed name from 'I' to 'Zhen', Zhang Buji sneered inwardly.

According to his understanding, Liu Ying is probably a little anxious because of encountering unknown things at this moment. This is a common problem of those who want to control...

Should!
In order not to be hated by this stingy and vengeful guy, Zhang Buyi suppressed the smile on his face and explained: "This is a kind of sheep recently bred by Qi Wangfei. The Yanchi sheep we raise in Beidi County are even better than that!"

Liu Ying was full of surprise: "Who? My elder brother?"

After all, in the information that Liu Ying has, that big fat man is a good at eating sheep. When did he point out the skill of raising sheep?
Zhang Buyi nodded.

Liu Ying asked: "How can knowing be cultivated?"

Zhang Buyi spread his hands: "I'm just a dandy waiting to die, why ask me this?"

My mother...Liu Ying couldn't laugh or cry.

Zhang Buyi raised his eyebrows very proudly, and then said with some uncertainty: "I heard people say that since the king of Qi became a vassal, he has used the influence of Princess Qi Bai's mother's family in Guanzhong to recruit scholars from the Han public school. The son has been in Qi, these few years have been quite fruitful, and there is a faint tendency to rebuild the Jixia Academy!"

"I think this new breed of sheep may be made by those scholars from your Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College!"

Unexpectedly, that big fat man did a lot of things secretly... Liu Ying grinned, and didn't take what Zhang Buyi said to heart.

Today's Qi State is not the Qi State of ten years ago. At that time, Liu Fei had 73 counties under his jurisdiction. Anyone who spoke the Qi State dialect was his vassal. Qi State was indeed the most powerful vassal in the world!

The state of Han has laws and regulations. In principle, administrative units at the county level have a population of no more than [-] households.

In other words, the original Qi State had roughly 100 million households and a population of 700 million, so it could easily pull out an army of 30 to [-] people!
Therefore, in the original historical line, Qi State was the confidant of the Guanzhong court. Lu Zhi even thought about killing Liu Fei, the eldest son of the concubine whom she had grown up with...

But now it's different.

Not to mention that Liu Fei was deprived of the land of ten counties, but under the decree of the Han Dynasty, the upper limit of the population he could have was also set at 700 million!
And the population of the Guanzhong Plain, where the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty is located, has exceeded 2000 million!

The most important thing is that according to the laws of the Han Dynasty, after the number of households controlled by the county-level administrative unit exceeds [-], the redundant people must be removed and a new county-level administrative unit will be re-established. It is the post of the county magistrate, under the dual leadership of the county level and the central government.

This is the county system.

Officials appointed by the imperial court and hereditary princes supervised each other to maintain a political balance.

Therefore, in addition to the current state of Qi, there are also a large number of newly established counties, and the corresponding four counties of Linsu, Jibei, Jiaodong, and Langye.

Therefore, for the Han Central Committee, the so-called strongest vassal in the world is nothing but a joke!
Liu Ying let go of the rein and let the horse run for a while, as if she suddenly remembered something else, and asked: "It is said that sheep are used instead of elk as prey, can Zhou Chang spare them?"

When he said the word 'Zhou Chang', his tone involuntarily increased, and he gritted his teeth faintly.

After all, as in history, that guy belonged to the smelly and hard stones in the latrine. Even though he was an official of the Eastern Palace, he never flattered Liu Ying like most of the courtiers.

On the contrary, that guy always likes to offend the dragon's face and lift the dragon's scale!

It seemed like Liu Ying owed him a lot of money...

So Zhang Buyi had a self-indulgent expression on his face: "No, after all Yu Shi Zhongcheng has been staring at you! He doesn't care about us..."

Liu Ying: "..."

Zhang Buyi had a sinister smile on his face: "By the way, this doesn't fit your personality?"

Liu Ying frowned and said nothing.

Zhang Buyi continued to smile and said, "According to your usual temperament, why didn't you send Yu Shi Zhongcheng to Beihai to herd sheep?"

Liu Ying was serious: "In your eyes, is I such a stingy person?"

Zhang Buyi nodded vigorously.

After all, his short-sighted family has been digging insect eggs in the field under the sun these days. They are all tanned, and when they come back at night, their appetite is much smaller than before!
Just, distressed!

Liu Ying silently made a note for Zhang Buyi in her heart, shook her head and said, "Have you read "Warring States Policy"?"

Zhang Buyi was stunned for a moment: "I read it, what's the matter?"

Liu Ying asked: "Do you know that there is a story called "Zou Ji Satirized the King of Qi and Accepted Admonitions"?"

Zhang Buyi nodded: "I know, but it was made up by strategists..."

Liu Ying waved her hand, interrupted Zhang Buyi's long speech, and said directly:

"It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. What I want to say is that a country must allow people like Zou Ji to exist, no matter whether he is admonishing in a roundabout way like in the book, or admonishing outright like Yushi Zhongcheng..."

"Actually, I've always been very powerful..."

Do you believe what you say... Zhang Buyi looked sideways, and immediately let go of the rein, allowing the Zhaoye Jade Lion to spread its hooves and leave Liu Ying behind.

Liu Ying narrowed her eyes, tightened the reins and slowed down the horse.

So, behind them, those Lang Wei who carried bows and knives glared at him immediately.

As promised all field hunting...

But one is a white face, and the other is a natural white face.

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Mount Tai hunting ground.

"Ouch..."

"Father, I was wrong..."

Zhang Buyi ran away with his head in his arms. Behind him was Zhang Liang who looked old, but was walking like flying.

After all, this time was Fengchan Taishan. Although Zhang Liang frequently claimed that he was sick, he had to come to such an important occasion.

Well, the more important thing is that Feng Chan this time is more like a long-distance trip, which is very much in line with Zhang Liang's wishes...

But what he never expected was that his useless brat was so cheating!

Riding with the emperor, how dare you lead by several horse heads?

However, Zhang Buyi was just a little boy who honored the princess, not an old boy who dedicated his own daughter to the emperor, so for this kind of behavior, he could only be punished, punished, or punished according to the emperor's disgrace.

Of course Zhang Buyi wanted to pay a fine, his family had plenty of money!
But how could Liu Ying do what he wanted, so under the help of the second-generation heroes around him, Zhang Liang was the executioner instead...

well played!
I've seen this guy not pleasing to the eye for a long time!
This is the voice of Xia Houzao, Zhou Shengzhi and others.

After all, Zhang Buyi has a good personality, a good family background, and he is also the son-in-law of the emperor. The important person is beautiful, and he has been the "children of other people" in the words of their parents since childhood...

Especially the fact that they are beautiful has made them envy and hate for more than ten or twenty years!

Boyfriends are not only liked by women of the same age, that is, their wives and concubines, but also killers of teachers and wives. Even their own mothers have complained about them more than once, why do they eat and sleep at the same time? Split dates?

Hit, hit hard!
Xia Houzao took a few steps intentionally or unintentionally, blocking Zhang Buyi who was fleeing desperately.

In the next second, cries like killing a pig sounded.

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"Come on, second... third, try our roasted meat!"

Liu Fei stretched out her belly as if she was pregnant with octuplets, and handed the smoky meat skewers to Liu Ying who came over.

This big fat man is so sluggish... Liu Ying rolled her eyes invisibly: "Brother, is this duck meat again?"

Liu Fei was stunned, with black lines all over his face, and then he began to groan innocently: "The cheating on Ayu was really my sister's idea, it has nothing to do with me...but this is not duck meat, I swear... "

Liu Ying waved her hand to interrupt Liu Fei, and said with a smile: "You and my brother don't have to be like this, besides, when I was young, I didn't eat less roasted duck meat..."

Liu Fat couldn't laugh or cry: "Why can't you get along with the duck?"

Liu Ying changed the topic, raised the meat skewer in her hand and took a bite: "Could this be the salt flat sheep from Qidi? The taste is really delicious, not fishy or smelly!"

Liu Fei was immediately complacent: "This is the top-quality sheep that I spent a lot of money to finally find someone to breed! To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that my second uncle and fourth uncle are about to lose all their teeth, I would not give up! "

"After all, this is just the beginning. The total number of salt flat sheep, including breeding sheep, is only over 2000. This time, more than 400 were eaten..."

"If the eldest father was here, he might have chased me and ran all over the place!"

Liu Ying nodded in agreement, and asked with a smile: "Let me tell you how you made it? If it's hard to say, forget it. Now it's intellectual property and is protected by imperial laws. Even I, the emperor, can't go whoring for nothing... ..."

Liu Fei shook his head indifferently: "Then what can't you say?"

"I have a lot of fertile land in Qi, but there are more beaches. The place is flooded by the tide every now and then, so there is a lot of salt in the land..."

"Isn't it now forbidden to cook salt in the vassal states near the sea?"

"So I thought, it's a pity that so much land has been left unused. It just so happened that people from the Dahan Agricultural Union held a sales fair in Linzi, selling those high-yield wheat and corn seeds. I had nothing to do to go around. .”

"And then, guess what I found?"

Liu Ying shook her head.

Liu Fei said proudly: "Saline-alkali tolerant grass!"

"My father once told me that, for example, the land that has been soaked by floods will definitely not be able to grow food within three to five years. It needs to be soaked in water and rinsed several times before it can be restored to its original state."

"Father didn't know why at first, but later I heard from you that this is called saline-alkali land!"

"And the scholars from Guanzhong said that the deserted beaches on the seashore of Qi State are a kind of saline-alkali land. If you want to turn the barren land into fertile land, you have to build dams on the seashore to isolate the tide, and at the same time divert water to irrigate and soak. Wash the salt from the earth..."

"I thought it was good at first, but he told me that although there is no tide, the land is too close to the sea, and the salt in the sea will return to the ground from the ground, so this kind of cleaning of the soil is done every two or three years. Going to do it again..."

Liu Ying laughed out loud.

Liu Fei also echoed with a smile:

"That's why I asked him to come and go wherever he came from... Qi has money, but he can't waste it like this!"

"But the saline-alkali-tolerant grass has changed everything."

"In the past, the saline-alkali land by the sea, where not a single blade of grass grew, is now lush green. This kind of salt flat sheep was bred by a few other scholars from Guanzhong...Of course, according to them, the females were raised by you in Beidi County. Salt sheep!"

"Speaking of which, I also want to thank you!"

After Liu Fei finished speaking, his face was filled with high spirits.

As Liu's son, he will definitely not be as stupid as he appears on the surface.

After finishing the remaining pieces of meat, Liu Ying nodded and said, "It tastes really good. By the way, did you send it to our father?"

Liu Fei was stunned for a moment, then looked around: "Our father didn't come?"

You're done, the old man is greedy and stingy now... Liu Ying's face was suddenly full of gloating.

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At the eastern foot of Taishan Mountain, beside a nearly dry stream.

Wearing a plain hunting suit, Liu Le sat cross-legged under a big tree with luxuriant branches and a simple version of a barbecue grill in front of him. He kept skewering meat skewers such as grasshoppers, frogs, and voles with his hands and feet.

Obviously, a wild BBQ is about to begin...

On the wasteland on both sides of the river ditch, there were more than a dozen shirtless children with tanned backs.

Holding very delicate small shovels in their hands, they dug here and there on the grass, bursting into cheers from time to time.

"I got it, I got it..."

"Just say that there must be locust eggs in this place..."

"Look, there are more over there!"

……

Liu Le also yelled: "You work hard, sister will never treat you badly! If you dig up a catty of insect eggs, you will not only have white flour steamed buns and pocket money, but also candy!"

The children jumped up and down immediately, and ran over with the clean eggs in their hands.

"Thank you, auntie!"

"Call my sister..."

(End of this chapter)