Chapter 344

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After the edict, Fang Xie had to face an endless general meal. The left avant-garde generals and officials of pingshangdao took turns to fight. Today they were in Zuixian building, tomorrow they were in Yonghe building, a famous restaurant in Yongzhou City. Fang Xie ate almost once in just half a month.

The customs in the southwest region are similar to those in the south of the Yangtze River, but the flavor of dishes is much different. Jianghuai cuisine pays attention to a light, simple and clean phase, and pursues a realm of dishes like scenery. Southwest food tastes very strong. In terms of taste, it tends to be sweet and delicious. It has some meaning of Sichuan food in previous generations, so Fang Xie doesn't feel uncomfortable at all, but likes it very much. In previous lives, any roadside restaurant could fry several courses of Sichuan food. Whether it was authentic or not was put aside. Anyway, the name would not be wrong after all.

She had been entertaining for half a month. Fang Xie was afraid that her fat would come out, so she added half an hour to her practice every morning.

Later, he couldn't bear the attack of the wine pool and meat forest. Fang Xie pushed all today's invitations on the grounds of physical discomfort, and planned to visit Yongzhou City with Shen Qing fan and Mu Xiaoyao. It's been more than ten days since I arrived in Yongzhou. I really haven't had a good look at this big city in the southwest.

Compared with the square rules of Chang'an, the buildings in Yongzhou City are slightly scattered. The workshops in Chang'an city are as neat as cutting tofu pieces with a knife, but here it seems that everything is very casual. Relatively speaking, Fang Xie prefers this seemingly messy city.

Chang'an city is so big, but if you don't look at the signs of the shops on both sides of the road, it's like walking on the same street forever. The atmosphere belongs to the atmosphere and the grandeur belongs to the grandeur, but it will be visual fatigue after all. There are mountains and water in Yongzhou City. It seems that officials still retain the legacy of the Shang state. They don't like to live in trouble, but all live in the house at the foot of Yihe mountain in Yongzhou City. In Chang'an City, officials were proud to live near Tai Chi palace, while in the original Shang state, officials were proud to live far away from the imperial palace.

It seems that the latter seems a little indifferent to fame and wealth. In fact, it is more luxurious and corrupt. Yihe mountain is not big. According to the truth, it should be regarded as a branch of cangman mountain. Yihe mountain is actually two hills, connected by a low slope that is not a ridge. The two low mountains are more than ten miles away. One is surrounded by the Imperial City in the east of Yongzhou City. The other one is in the south of the city and is occupied by officials.

The officials of the Shang state were so corrupt that no one focused on government affairs. A group of officials gathered together to enjoy singing poems and Fu. In the previous dynasty, it was often the emperor of the Shang Dynasty who sat on the Dragon chair and made a pair. The officials who came out first would be rewarded for the neat lower couplet.

In a dynasty of hundreds of years, the emphasis on literature and light weapons has reached a shocking level. When Nan Chen still existed, Shang people had blood in their bones. Several attacks of the Chen army were defeated by the Shang army. At its most brilliant time, the Shang army fought back and invaded the territory of the Chen state 1700 Li, only 200 li away from the Laoyang city in the western capital of the Chen state.

It was also after the war that the civil servants felt that they could not revive the position of the military generals so that they overthrew them in the imperial court, so they jointly concocted criminal evidence and framed more than a dozen generals to try to join hands in rebellion. In a rage, the emperor of the state of Shang killed all the generals who came back with their military achievements. The civil servants clapped their hands to celebrate and praised the emperor as an eternal emperor. Since then, the literary style of the Shang state has been more victorious, and the status of military generals has plummeted.

This is why the Sui army was so powerful when attacking the Shang state. So that when Luo Yao, the left avant-garde general, arrived outside Yongzhou with 20000 tired divisions, more than 100000 merchant troops guarding Yongzhou opened the door and surrendered without even fighting.

There are more than 100000 garrisons, only 20000 on the siege side. It is still the tired division, and the victorious side is the latter... This has the greatest relationship with the bloody nature of the merchant army without soldiers. The royal family of the Shang Dynasty did not trust generals, but only civilian officials, so later, the people in charge of military power were a group of great scholars who could recite poetry and Fu best.

It is not terrible for literati to lead soldiers. What is terrible is that literati who can only write poetry lead soldiers.

Because of this corruption, the literati have a high status, so they will most enjoy the official house at the foot of another mountain in Yihe mountain. After Garrisoning the southwest, Luo Yao used some old officials of the Shang state. None of their original things were confiscated. Later, some of the new civil servants tried to move to the vacant houses in yiheshan, but Luo Yao didn't ask. In the following few years, the official houses were full again.

Left avant-garde people have always looked down on civil servants and just scoff at this behavior.

The three of Fang Xie walked along the street and looked all the way. They couldn't help but come out of their mind when they recalled the days when they took refuge in Nanyan. The local conditions and customs of Nanyan are almost the same as those of Yongzhou, so it is inevitable that there is a sense of familiarity in the heart.

"People here seem to have a lazy temperament."

Mu Xiaoyao pointed to the people fishing by the river and the people playing chess under the big tree.

Fang Xie nodded: "It has only been more than 20 years since the end of the Shang Dynasty, and people's living habits have not changed much. Luo Yao deliberately ignored those civil servants, creating an illusion that he respected the literati. In fact, this way of captivity is the easiest way to kill people's fighting spirit. At the beginning, the Shang country declined from a powerful country, but Luo Yao just maintained this trend, allowing the literati to relax and enjoy So in the past 20 years, the first people to admit that they are Sui people are the literati who have always advocated their integrity. "

"Actually..."

Fang Xie said as he walked, "the most threatening thing to the country in all dynasties is not the martial arts, but the literati, because the literati are inflammatory and influential."

"In a village, there are 300 people. There is a martial artist and an old gentleman in the village. People will respect the old gentleman more. The martial artist needs to kill more than three people to make the 300 people fear him and listen to him, and they are not willing. The old gentleman only needs one word to convince the villagers to listen."

Shen qingfan said, "you mean, Luo Yao has done a good job with both hands? If you don't kill the literati, let them live in dignity. These influential literati live well, so they will also preach a good life, and the people will feel happy. Then Luo Yao will make some trouble from time to time and kill a group of people to keep people afraid of him... Good means."

"Really good means."

Fang Xie said faintly as he walked, "it's because this method is too beautiful, so I don't believe Luo Yaozhong's heart. It's not the general's mind, but... The emperor's mind."

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When they came to the foot of Yihe mountain in the south of the city, the three of Fang Xie ate something on the roadside. After eating, he began to go shopping more leisurely and walked into the roadside shops from time to time. Half an hour later, there were many more things in the hands of bathed waist and sink fan. Rouge, gouache, jewelry, jade.

Naturally, they can't hide from Luo Yao about shopping. It's estimated that Luo Yao will know what they bought and ate before long.

Jubaozhai is a shop specializing in antique treasures. It is said to have a history of 200 years. Yongzhou City broke the state and changed owners, but it didn't let the store fall down. With the stability of Southwest China, the business of jubaozhai is getting better and better. Because of the integration of the north and the south, the supply and sales of things that were originally difficult to circulate have become better.

Fang Xie and the three of them walked into the jubaozhai and walked around the room at will.

The boss of jubaozhai looks like a man in his fifties. He has a goatee. His eyes should be bad. He always squints when looking at people. When Fang Xie and them entered the door, the clever boy immediately shouted that the distinguished guest arrived. The boss immediately came out from behind the counter, politely said hello, and then ordered the boy to serve tea.

Tea is not for everyone. In the field of antiques, you should have a good eye for things and people. Although the boss's eyes are not very good, he has never seen things and people.

"Sir, what do you want to see?"

He personally brought up the tea and led Fang Xie them to the nearby reception place.

Sandalwood tables and chairs, and the three legged bronze incense burner on the table are also antiques, worth a lot of silver. Tea is also good tea, but it is not the flower tea that northerners are used to drinking. Northerners drink tea with strong flavor, while people in Jiangnan like to taste light tea fragrance.

Fang Xie picked up the tea cup and smelled it. After praising the good tea, he smiled and said, "there's nothing special to buy. Just walk around here. If there's anything you like, you'll accept it."

"Do you have any special preferences?"

The boss asked with a smiling face.

"I'm from the north, but I didn't have time to find a workshop in the north to make something because I wanted to come to Yongzhou."

"Making things?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "I'm really sorry. Our goods are genuine."

Fang Xie smiled and waved his hand: "no, it's not for you to cheat, but to make something with strange prices that no one has done before. I collected some good crystals a while ago. Can you find a craftsman with good workmanship to polish these crystals? I can write down the process. Just do it, and the price is also negotiable."

"What are you going to do?"

The boss asked curiously.

Fang Xie gestured: "glasses, you should know Qianli eye. It's commonly used by military generals, but it's all bought from businessmen in the East Chu. The effect I want to do is similar to that of Qianli eye, but it should be more refined."

Fang Xie said it in detail. The boss frowned and thought for a while and said, "it's not difficult for the craftsman to find it, but what you ask is really fine. You should ensure that it's transparent as if there's nothing in front of you. This is a fine work, which can't be done in a while."

"No hurry"

Fang Xie smiled: "I want to stay in Yongzhou for at least one month. If I can do it, I'll ask someone to send the crystal back."

"Crystal is rare."

The boss had to re-examine Fang Xie: "as far as I know, it is only produced in Huolie country in the south of Mengyuan. It is said that cangman mountain also has it, but it is very rare. These things are basically in our big Sui Dynasty..."

He got up and saluted respectfully: "what do you call your excellency?"

Fang Xie was stunned and said that he was thoughtful.

"Our bank is from Chang'an."

Hearing these words, the boss's face changed. When he was about to salute, Fang Xie stopped him: "don't salute, I don't want to be too troublesome... In addition, there are other things to tell you."

While saying this, Fang Xie dipped his finger in tea and wrote a word Wu on the table.

No one in Yongzhou knew or expected that jubaozhai had been bought by Huotong Tianxing many years ago. Now all the people in jubaozhai are under Wu Yidao. The local people thought that the owner of jubaozhai was too old and went back to his old house for rest. They entrusted the business to the shopkeeper. In fact, as early as five or six years ago, the owner of jubaozhai was changed to San jinhou.

Seeing this Wu character, the boss's face changed slightly: "what can I do for you, sir?"

"Nothing."

Fang Xie smiled: "do the things you are told to do as soon as possible. The reason why you are looking for is that you know that there is no goods in the world. You can't do business. What's more, my every move in Yongzhou is watched by people. My people can't go in and out of Yongzhou at will. I need you to take some rest."

"But at your command, the proprietor sent someone to explain it a long time ago. When you arrive in Yongzhou, the top and bottom of jubaozhai will obey your orders."