Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1263 Smart or not

  Changan Meiyang is to the north, and the grassland at the southern foot of the mountain.

The horse that was injured some time ago is recovering here, and on the other side of the horse are herds of cattle and sheep. Although it is not as large as the Hu people's tribe, but the accumulation of these two years has also produced a large number of people. less number.

Although commerce cannot directly produce a variety of production and living materials like agriculture, commerce can promote the production of these materials, because more and better materials can be exchanged for the generals who conquered the west and the north, and the barbarian production The enthusiasm of the farmers has also been improved, and the number of cattle and sheep raised has gradually increased.

In the past, it was not that the Hu people could not raise so many cattle and sheep, but because they had to migrate frequently, and it was really difficult to take care of the number beyond their ability. Second, the capacity of the grassland was limited. The more cattle and sheep, the more a piece of pasture would be eaten up. The faster the speed, the more frequent the migration, and the cattle and sheep need hay reserves for the winter. In the Han Dynasty without large machinery, everything was done by hand, which naturally limited the scale of Hu people's breeding.

But now it is different. After autumn, the weaker and older cattle and sheep can be sold to the Han people, leaving the strong cattle and sheep for the winter, which can be exchanged for supplies and reduce the consumption of hay in winter. And you don't have to worry about labor like you used to, the Hu people are naturally very happy.

For the Han people who belonged to General Zhengxi, selling high and buying low is a common practice, just like the price of grain before and after the autumn harvest can vary wildly, and the price of cattle and sheep also fluctuates with the seasons, plus The pastures of the Hu people in the north are bitterly cold in winter, but the temperature at the southern foot of Lishan Mountain is much better. The old and weak cattle and sheep that the Hu people think can't survive can often survive here where the temperature is better...

  Even if there are really signs of being unable to survive, the huge consumer groups in the Chang'an area are enough to maximize the value of these cattle and sheep, and the cattle and sheep skins, muscles, and bones can be fully utilized.

   Therefore, the number of cattle and sheep on the pastures at the southern foot of Lishan Mountain in Chang'an has gradually increased after coming and going, and the value of Bingbei's commercial prosperity can also be glimpsed here.

  But Jia Xu and Xu Shu finally came here to get together, not just to see the cattle and sheep coming, but to focus on the meat.

   How comfortable it is to eat meat. Will anyone turn around and eat dirt after getting used to eating meat?

Xu Shu squinted at Jia Xu, turned back to look at the farmer who was cutting the last wave of pasture, then looked at the sheep grazing in the distance, and said after a while: "The pit in front is very big. Obviously..."

  The suggestion of digging a hole this time was proposed by Jia Xu, and then Pang Tong implemented it.

  Compared to Xu Shu and Jia Xu, Pang Tong is indeed very deceptive, after all, he is young! In the Han Dynasty, when marriage and childbirth were very early, although Pang Tong was considered an adult at this age, the officials under his subordinates were all seven or eight years older than Pang Tong, and some were even twenty or thirty years older. On the surface, there was not much difference between Zhengxi General Fei Qian and Duke Pang De, but everyone knew that someone must be very upset when they saw Pang Tong's thin face and his bearded chin.

However, those who are close to ink are black, um, no, it is not unreasonable to be close to Zhu Zhechi. Pang Tong has been with Jia Xu and Xu Shu for a long time, and he is also a smart person. This trick, um, planning skills will naturally improve a lot...

But what Xu Shu was thinking about was that although Pang Tong's age was deceptive to a certain extent, not long ago, he had just dug a group of nobles from the Sanfu gentry. Even if these guys don't remember to eat, they should remember to fight. Well, if not many people fall in, there won't be much meat to eat.

  Jia Xu narrowed his eyes, laughed a few times, and then said: "Man dies for money, and birds die for food. Everyone knows it, so why not!"

  Xu Shu thought for a moment, and then nodded, it is true, the so-called easy to do, everyone knows that if you are not greedy for petty gains, you will not be deceived so easily, but don’t those who are deceived understand this shallow truth?

   "Then we'll see if Shi Yuan can perform well in this play..." Xu Shu was still worried about gain and loss.

"Hehehe..." Jia Xu laughed unkindly, and said, "What are you afraid of, anyway, even if the performance fails, we have nothing to lose...I said, your dual relationship is really good, you are quite worried about him of…"

"What do you mean by duality..." Xu Shu retorted, "They are all under Zhengxi's command, so there is no such thing as you and us. Besides, there are quite a lot of 'Wen' characters and 'Zi' characters. Speaking of which, there are quite a few... Hehe, it is true that there are the most mosquitoes..."

   Jia Xu rolled his eyes covertly. Anyway, his eyes are slender, so it is not easy to be noticed by others. After a short pause, he said, "What happened to Tongguan?"

  Tongguan direction is Xu Shu's main work. When it came to business, Xu Shu also stopped talking and laughing, stroked his beard and said: "I have sent more than ten teams to patrol day and night, and I will definitely not leak any news..."

   "Hmm..." Jia Xu nodded.

  Yang Biao of Tongguan, in fact, couldn't hold on a few days ago. After receiving the news of Wuqiu Xing's defeat, there was no room for struggle at all, and he immediately chose to retreat. But this news is still being withheld by Xu Shu and Jia Xu, and they have not announced it directly with great fanfare.

   "As for Longyou..." Xu Shu looked at Jia Xu, this matter is the project that Jia Xu is mainly responsible for.

  Jia Xu was silent for a moment, and said with a little melancholy: "There is Li Changshi sitting there... those little bugs can't make big waves..."

   "So, Li Changshi is going to be stationed in Longyou?" Xu Shu keenly grasped the point and said.

   Jia Xu sighed slightly and nodded.

  Xu Shu was silent for a moment, then sighed, and said, "That's fine..."

  Although both of them knew that when Dong Zhuo wanted to poison Liu Bian, Li Ru strongly opposed it. Because of this, Li Ru basically had no relationship with the central court. Although there were not a few ministers who killed the emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty, it does not mean that Liu Xie can tolerate Li Ru dangling under his nose. The appearance is already like two people, but if someone pokes it out, it will be troublesome.

   But under the court, it's different.

Xu Shu and others are also aware of Li Ru's kindness to General Fei Qian of Zhengxi, so General Feiqian of Zhengxi took Li Ru in and made Li Ru a long history. The others naturally didn't have anything to say, and even thought it was a blessing to have such a chief who remembered the old feelings and was willing to take risks for his subordinates.

   Therefore, Li Ru's position in Longyou became the best choice.

On the one hand, Longyou, like Bingbei, Jiaozhou, Youbei, Annan and other places, is a place of exile for the big Han. Li Ru in Longyou is equivalent to serving his sentence on his own initiative. Longyou Li Ru is very familiar with him, and he has some connections and prestige. With him in charge, he is naturally more reassuring than others.

   "Okay... let's see how much meat there is in the pit now..." Xu Shu turned his gaze to the distance again, looking at the large herd of cattle and sheep and said.

  Jia Xu also nodded, licked his lips, and smacked his lips...

  ………………

  Jingxiang, Kuaifu.

   Kuai Yue walked in with his sleeves flicked, cupped his hands towards Kuai Liang, and then sat down with an angry look.

   Kuai Liang slightly raised his eyelids, glanced at Kuai Yue, then ignored him, but twirled his beard slightly, and continued to look at his scroll.

  After sitting for a while, Kuai Yue finally couldn't sit still. He turned his body and was about to say something when he met Kuai Liang's narrowed eyes.

   "Uh..." Kuai Yue opened his mouth, swallowed the words again, and sat beside him silently.

   After a while, Kuai Liang put the scroll in his hand on the table, and then said slowly, "What's the matter?"

   "The people from the Cai family and the Huang family have left again..." Kuai Yue said while leaning forward slightly with his hands on the table.

   "Going to Hanzhong?" Kuai Liang frowned and asked.

   Kuai Yue nodded, and then whispered: "It is said that Liu Jingzhou accidentally dropped a cup in the hall..."

   The beard on the corner of Kuai Liang's mouth slightly raised, and he said, "So it's not just the Cai family and the Huang family who went there? Who else?"

   "Brother really can't hide anything from you..." Kuai Yue said with a smile, "...the Ma family and the Fei family are also with you..."

"Ma's? Fei's?" Kuai Liang twitched his eyebrows, then nodded, and said, "No wonder Liu Jingzhou threw the cup... Hanzhong, Hanzhong is indeed a good place... Ma's and Huang's have always been good, and they can be regarded as family friends." , it’s not surprising that they go together...but this Fei family...um..."

   Kuai Liang's eyeballs moved quickly left and right, and suddenly thought of something, and said, "Oh, I see..."

   Kuai Yue blinked, a little stunned, what did he understand?

   Kuai Liang glanced at Kuai Yue, saw his expression, and knew that he hadn't thought clearly, so he raised it a little bit, and said: "The Fei family is different from the Ma family, it's their own relationship..."

"My relationship?" Kuai Yue still couldn't figure it out. When he wanted to ask again, Kuai Liang closed his mouth and was glared at. : "Is this General Zhengxi so powerful? I really didn't see it at all in Jingxiang..."

  Crap!

   Kuai Liang frowned and said, "Tell me, what exactly do you want to do?"

   Kuai Yue laughed twice, and said in a low voice: "Didn't Liu Jingzhou drop the cup? Brother, look, can you..."

   Kuai Liang glared, and slapped the table with a "bang": "Nonsense! I thought you were older these few years, and you could handle things more or less calmly. I never thought you were still so reckless!"

   "Big brother! Why did the big brother say that, the younger brother is also thinking of the Kuai family..." Kuai Yue was taken aback, and said somewhat aggrieved.

"Huh!" Kuai Liang waved his hand, first ordered all the attendants around him to retreat, then stared at Kuai Yue and said, "For the sake of the Kuai family! You deserve to say it! Well, if you don't make it clear today, I'm afraid you won't be able to do so in the future." It will bring disaster! Kuai Yue, kneel down to someone!"

   Kuai Yue trembled, not daring to blow his hair, and obediently left the seat and fell to his knees. In the Han Dynasty, the saying that an elder brother is like a father is not just a casual saying.

"Liu Jingzhou has just arrived, so it's okay for you to offer advice, but in the name of Kuai's family, he invited you to eliminate the thieves!" Kuai Liang said in a deep voice, "Although these thieves are dead, you don't even think about it, why did these thieves come here?! If something goes wrong in the Kuai family in the future, what will be the consequences?!"

   Kuai Yue subconsciously wanted to reply, "How could our Kuai family do such a thing", but when he looked up, he saw Kuai Liang's face sinking like water.

"A suggestion to Liu Jingzhou at the beginning, although the effect was slow and very stable, the operation during the process was even more mysterious. If Liu Jingzhou handed over this matter to the Kuai family, the Kuai family could take the opportunity to hold military power and control the place. ..." Kuai Liang said in a deep voice, "And you, apart from gaining the reputation of being a 'criminal', how much benefit did you bring to the Kuai family?"

  Although it was autumn and the weather was dry, Kuai Yue's head soon gathered a lot of sparkling water, and soon a drop of sweat fell on the bluestone on the ground.

   "In the future, you want to borrow a knife, but others will treat it as a knife!" Kuai Liang sighed and said, "Although I was aware of it at the time, I was a step too late, and it is half my fault..."

  Kuai Yue hurriedly kowtowed and said, "This is the younger brother's fault, it has nothing to do with the elder brother..."

"It has nothing to do with me, so does it have anything to do with the Kuai family?" Kuai Liang glared at Kuai Yue, angrily picked up the scroll on the table, and smashed it on Kuai Yue, "If you say it's okay, it's okay? You Is it great to be able to bear the responsibility? Others won’t place the blame on the Kuai family? You... are really angry!”

   "Brother, calm down! Big brother, calm down..." Kuai Yue kowtowed again and again, and said, "It's my fault, my fault, my recklessness..."

Kuai Liang took a few hard breaths, calmed down, and then said slowly: "Since you know your mistake, why did you take the bait this time? You fell down twice or three times in the same place, and you still have the face to call yourself smart?"

   "What? Brother means..." Kuai Yue raised his head fiercely, widened his eyes, and said, "Yes... Liu Jingzhou intends to..."

"Or else?" Kuai Liang closed his eyes, shook his head and said, "You must know that the Cai family is Liu Jingzhou's inner room! Liu Jingzhou accidentally dropped the cup... Hehe, if it really happened, you think you will know first Or did Mrs. Cai know first?"

   Kuai Yue's sweat rolled down his head.

"Our Kuai family is not the sword of the Liu family, nor is it the running dog of the Liu family!" Kuai Liang lowered his voice and said, "General Zhengxi is now gaining momentum, and the Cai family and the Huang family are nothing more than taking advantage of the momentum of General Xi to fight with Liu Jingzhou." Check and balance, why should our Kuai family be villains in vain?"

   "Brother...then, what should we do..." Kuai Yue said hesitantly.

"Zhengxi created a new paper called Snow Bamboo Paper, which is as white as snow and tough as bamboo..." Kuai Liang said quietly, "Now Zhengxi has taken Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Shu have a lot of bamboo... Tomorrow you will make Kuai The family paper shop, contracted personnel, etc. were taken to Huang's Hermitage, and they were said to be congratulated by General Zhengxi!"

   "This..." Kuai Yue was somewhat reluctant.

"It's okay, if Zhengxi's momentum can be maintained, what is this small loss?" Kuai Liang said with a smile, "I know you have a slight disagreement with Zhengxi, but for the sake of the Kuai family, we need to look far away. Some..." With Zhengxi and Huang's teaming up, plus the bamboo from Sichuan and Shu, Huang's expansion of snow bamboo paper production in Jingxiang is simply a piece of cake, so Kuai's paper workshop must be struggling in the future, so it is better to do it now Personal feelings, ease the positions of both parties.

   Kuai Yue lowered his head, remained silent for a moment, and nodded.

   "After finishing this matter tomorrow, go back to the room and copy the Book of Rites 31 for me ten times. If you don't finish copying, you are not allowed to leave the house! Somehow, you need to improve your memory!" Kuai Liang continued.

   Kuai Yue was helpless, he could only nod his head and say yes...

  (end of this chapter)